Telkom Phone lines

[Samayanaya]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to find out if it is possible to detect who is phoning me on a landline. My problem is that I don't know if Telkom uses DTMF dialing or FSK data sending to get or receive the number. Does anyone here know?

BTW if this is in the wrong thread, I apologize (but I couldn't see where else to put it )

 

[Brandon]

AFAIK FSK.

 

[davemc]

I'm not sure which standard they use, but, you have to ask Telkom to enable the caller-id service on your line, and they charge you something like R12 for the privilege.

 

[Amida]

I remember Telkom using DTMF for CLI

 

[ponder]

Telkom uses ETSI standards for CLI.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute's (ETSI) standard (ETS 300 659-1 and -2, and ES 200 778-1 and -2, the latter replacing ETS 300 778-1 & -2)

This is also specified in ICASA DPT-TE-010 "FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ANALOGUE CALLING LINE IDENTIFICATION (CLI) CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT (CPE)" ICASA TE-010 Document
http://www.icasa.org.za/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=utEfwkaAY2M=&tabid=181&mid=535&forcedownload=true


http://www.ainslie.org.uk/callerid/cli_faq.htm

 

[fragtion]

You need to activate the IdentiCall feature which as davemc says, costs about R12 a month. We got a small callerid device from telkom when we did this, but I cant remember if we paid extra for that or not..

http://www.telkom.co.za/athome/services/identicall/index.html
http://www.itweb.co.za/office/telkom/9903101219.htm

 

[Samayanaya]

Thanks people!!! You all have been a great help