Telephones Online Blog – Reviews of Home and Office Telephones and other Products from TelephonesOnline.co.uk
BT Caller Display | Phone Freedom November 6, 2007
The phone rings and I stumble through the living room to find it. It is emitting a nasty beeping noise which grates upon my fragile consciousness. I thumb the green button on the handset and realise that I am too late, I have missed the call, still half asleep I make my way back to the sofa where I was snoozing..
This scenario can be a thing of the past with a shiny new cordless phone, with BT Caller Display you can have ( such as on a mobile phone ) the callers identity broadcast to your telephone before it even thinks about ringing. It is the main reason that I chose not to go with a cable provider, it is a must for any home phone system. As your handset is rarely at your fingertips, unlike your Nokia or Sony Ericsson, you really get massive benefits from a digital cordless phone with Caller Display. Look at it like this :
Your home phone has a telephone directory on it. You assign different ringtones ( often from a selection of smooth polyphonics) to different callers. This way when your telephone is first sprung into action it knows what to do, it lets you know who is calling allowing you the casual luxury of deciding whether to get up and answer it or whether to kick back and let it ring.
BT are currently offering this service as part of many packages or for a small monthly charge and have the follwing information available to users, both prospective and present :
- You can dial 141 before calling a number to prevent your number being displayed to another person
- If you are ex directory or unlisted and wish your number to be displayed, dial 142 before the number you are calling.
- Order Caller Line Restriction to permanently block your number being displayed
So get it enabled ( if you have a BT Telephone Contract ) and have the opportunity at last to filter your incoming phone calls.
From BT Website :Caller Display allows you to see the number of the person calling. Caller Display cannot disclose the number if the number is withheld or unavailable. If your phone doesn’t have a compatible screen, you’ll need a Caller Display Unit.
Choose from a huge range here : BT Caller Display Telephones
