I'm not a big fan of caller ID or call blocking.
I stay busy all day and I only return calls while I'm on the road between appointments. Most of my time driving is used also to listen to voice mail on my hands-free headset. My voice mail gives me an option at the end of each call to press 8 to return the call. Since the call is made through the voice mail service my ID is blocked. If I can return the call by pressing 8, I can return a call easily. But, if I have 5 or 6 calls to return I would need to pull over and write each message down.
The problem with call blocking is that when I try to promptly return a call by pressing 8 to a caller with blocking on, all I get is…"we're sorry this party does not accept unidentified calls…" As a result, I skip that person's message and go on to the next message that I can return by pressing 8. Often it is the next morning before I am able to get to those who left messages but had call blocking. Caller ID comes mandatory with my cell phone service, but I don't use it on my home phone because I love surprises.
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to circumvent the blocking, prepend the number with *82
(if your number is blocked by default)
to block your number, prepend with *67
(if you would like to block your otherwise broadcast #)
these work for me on the spring phone I have
cheers!
When I reply through my voice mail, it routs my calls through my voice mail service with is blocked on the network end. *82 doesn't do any good in this case.
If I want to unblock my number I have to listen to the message again from the beginning, write down the number, hang up the phone and dial the number manually. Not that big of deal unless I am working on returning 10 messages.