Rest assured, whoever owns this number (if it is indeed assigned) could well not have been home (or awake) when this call came in -- most likely from some internet café in India, Russia, or Liberia with marked-up copies of the federal Do-Not-Call list lying around -- but assuredly NOT from this number in Virginia.
What we need is a REAL caller-ID field that can only show the actual originating number, even if from overseas. If the caller wants to block his number, then say “blocked” (as it can now). If it’s a corporation that doesn’t want to reveal the desk number of the employee calling you, then say something like “corporate” -- the caller could give the appropriate call-back number in his message. And if it’s an internet telephony call (the excuse apparently for providing the ability to freely make up Caller-ID data), say “VoIP” and show the (true) IP address and the (true) DNS results for that IP. But under no circumstances can a phone number be written into it.
Rest assured, whoever owns this number (if it is indeed assigned) could well not have been home (or awake) when this call came in -- most likely from some internet café in India, Russia, or Liberia with marked-up copies of the federal Do-Not-Call list lying around -- but assuredly NOT from this number in Virginia.
What we need is a REAL caller-ID field that can only show the actual originating number, even if from overseas. If the caller wants to block his number, then say “blocked” (as it can now). If it’s a corporation that doesn’t want to reveal the desk number of the employee calling you, then say something like “corporate” -- the caller could give the appropriate call-back number in his message. And if it’s an internet telephony call (the excuse apparently for providing the ability to freely make up Caller-ID data), say “VoIP” and show the (true) IP address and the (true) DNS results for that IP. But under no circumstances can a phone number be written into it.