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Hrm. Dunno. CLI worked with landlines where I'm from since about 30 years ago? Also ISDN.

ggm 4y ago
the presage of death here, was being able to selectively pick up. Actual need for a line? total. you want to make out-calls. Being able to filter pick up? Breaks the implicit cycle of "if its a call, it must be important" Took another 20 years to hit. Thats all.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
  That depended on your phone. You could do that 'selective' thing via a simple LC-display and cursor/menu-keys and give that 'special' number an always busy. Could be embarassing though, when the other party supressed CLIP and gotcha! :-) But is that any different today, regardless of 'line-tech'? You can either do that whitelist thing, and deny any other calls, or do blacklisting only in combination with supressing unidentified callers. Another thing was that most people didn't even know that these options existed at all, and/or their phones didn't have the capability. Some former national telcos were also slow in offering, and/or charged more money for that. While the upstarts just did it. IIRC handsets from Panasonic did it all and were most affordable (at the times).
  - ggm 4y ago
    Not claiming this is the "one" -just, as a signal of change, I think CLI began the rot. Really? I cord-cut when I woke up to how few non-spam incalls I got on the landy, which by then was VOIP anyway. Since moving house 7 years ago I was getting it over fibre, but presented as a true DTMF enabled wall-port: ran at the reliability of the volts into the building. Then, that provider stopped and said "we'd rather back this in the IP service we sell you, as VOIP" (hint: it was always VOIP, they just had ATX devices presenting it to me as non-voip) -But dropped the reliability guarantee. Why bother? Nobody calling, useless in a power outage, Emergency call location, ok there's that, but I am dialling on my mobile if I fall anyway... Yea.. Nah. Over it.

ggm 4y ago

the presage of death here, was being able to selectively pick up. Actual need for a line? total. you want to make out-calls. Being able to filter pick up? Breaks the implicit cycle of "if its a call, it must be important" Took another 20 years to hit. Thats all.

LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
That depended on your phone. You could do that 'selective' thing via a simple LC-display and cursor/menu-keys and give that 'special' number an always busy. Could be embarassing though, when the other party supressed CLIP and gotcha! :-) But is that any different today, regardless of 'line-tech'? You can either do that whitelist thing, and deny any other calls, or do blacklisting only in combination with supressing unidentified callers. Another thing was that most people didn't even know that these options existed at all, and/or their phones didn't have the capability. Some former national telcos were also slow in offering, and/or charged more money for that. While the upstarts just did it. IIRC handsets from Panasonic did it all and were most affordable (at the times).
- ggm 4y ago
  Not claiming this is the "one" -just, as a signal of change, I think CLI began the rot. Really? I cord-cut when I woke up to how few non-spam incalls I got on the landy, which by then was VOIP anyway. Since moving house 7 years ago I was getting it over fibre, but presented as a true DTMF enabled wall-port: ran at the reliability of the volts into the building. Then, that provider stopped and said "we'd rather back this in the IP service we sell you, as VOIP" (hint: it was always VOIP, they just had ATX devices presenting it to me as non-voip) -But dropped the reliability guarantee. Why bother? Nobody calling, useless in a power outage, Emergency call location, ok there's that, but I am dialling on my mobile if I fall anyway... Yea.. Nah. Over it.