/rant on

Contrarian curmudgeon that I am, though, I refuse to add a charge for caller ID to my POTS line. I dislike our local mom n pop, “baling wire and chewing gum” telco enough that I begrudge them even the payment for barebones, no-frills so-called “service” they provide as it is.

Put it this way: I have around 500 households/businesses I can call using this lil two-exchange third world county telco, unless I wanna call the other exchange and incur long distance charges.

And that’s when the lines aren’t down cos a buncha squirrels decided to do some line dancing.

Caller ID? Works just fine on the POTS telco (when service is working well), except that even then, it only IDs numbers in this lil mom n pop “baling wire and chewing gum” telco’s own two exchanges.

*sigh*

Of course, my REAL phone number has CID and other features built in. But then, that’s a VOIP “line” that does not—yet—work with external CID devices.

/rant off

Still, cool gadget and neat site.