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If you are looking for a good, simple caller ID unit, here is one you should check out:

https://howardssupply.com/products/southern-telecom-qwest-flat-panel-caller-id?_pos=1&_sid=20c9768b4&_ss=r

I have had one of these for a long time, and I needed another one, so I bought the same unit again. Here’s what I like about it:

* It doesn’t need a battery. Not only will the battery not run down in the unit, but also it won’t leak, because there is no battery. I don’t care if the stored numbers are preserved in a power outage, so I don’t need a battery in the unit.

* It is simple. Two buttons to scroll through the list of numbers, and one to delete a number.

* It is cheap. $5.87 plus shipping. (At the link I included above, shipping is free if you buy $50 worth of stuff.)

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Just out of curiosity I went onto Amazon and this unit is available from the same company, Howard’s Supply, for over double the price unless you order it direct using the link you posted here. I wanted to read reviews and the 2 that were listed weren’t anything special. I am laughing because one customer was surprised you had to subscribe to caller ID through your telephone service provider in order for this unit to be operational. We actually have a Panasonic telephone unit that has caller ID with blocking. But this simple addition would be great for anyone who doesn’t have caller ID on their phone system.

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Just a note, didn’t intend to insult anyone with my post where caller ID is concerned, in this case a reviewer posted a few years ago or so about the product on Amazon, unaware they needed to initially be subscribed to the caller ID service. Understandably mistaken on their part.

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I didn’t know you could get phones without CID anymore. It must be 20 years since I saw one without.

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I have a phone that I purchased about 8 years ago that is a really good speakerphone, and that has a headset jack. However, it doesn’t have caller ID. Now that you mention it, it is surprising that it doesn’t have caller ID. It is a great phone in every other way.

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Must one not still pay the phone company for this service? I have only seen the VOIP type offer this for free, and then not always w/o a package.

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I have a package deal from my local phone company that includes phone and internet service; caller ID is included in the package deal.

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And that is VOIP then ?

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No, not VOIP; just old-fashioned, basic, copper-wire phone service.

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Just for my own info that would be DSL internet service?
I was expecting to lose my copper soon but it may be delayed for a while. Copper is the BEST! Long live copper! Copper RIP :\

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Yes, DSL.

Where I live, we have three options:
1. DSL from the local phone company
2. Cellular hot spot
3. Satellite internet

I live in a small town, so we have a small-town local phone company. We get excellent tech support from them. If you need a tech to visit your house, he comes very quickly. And they have an excellent technical help desk which is available 24/7; I’ve gotten excellent help from them in the middle of the night.

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It is really sad that we are losing our universal, nationwide copper telephone network. I know it’s not the latest technology; but it ALWAYS works, even during a long-term power outage, because of the power backup systems at the phone company, and because your phone is powered by the electricity that comes over those copper wires.

I wish that the copper wire phone system would have been declared an essential national resource; and then whoever provided phone service in any given area would have been required to maintain the copper wires in top condition, and also would have been required to always offer copper-wire phone service as an option to everyone in the service area.

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[OscarCP]

Funny thing, now I think of it: my telephone service has offered caller ID for many years now, but I’ve never asked for it. As a result, I have been just once, that I still remember, many years ago, in a situation where having caller ID might have been useful — perhaps. There was a family that had a estranged son and this son had had, once upon a time, what was then my phone number. The members of this family (mother, father, sister of estranged son…) kept calling at all hours asking me to come home. I kept answering that I was not their absentee close relative, but nothing was enough to convince them. I even tried foul language, and got pooh-poohed for that and told not to be like that “with your sister.” Can’t remember why it was that they finally left me alone. But I doubt that caller-ID would have been that helpful. I still would have run to answer the phone every time they rang, to realize that they were calling and then not answer. So I would have been inconvenienced all the same. These days, thanks to the endless series of robocalls, I simply keep my landline off the hook and check once a day  in the evening to see who called. Otherwise, people who know me also know that I can be reached — and get an answer from me a lot sooner — by email than by telephone.

As to having caller ID built in the telephone itself: I have a Princess I bought from Radio Shack; one of those that look a bit like a banana split horizontally, with the handset and its cradle being both long and narrow. So: no built-in caller ID.

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