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How to hide your phone number when calling from your office phone?

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sanjuro

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Normally, I dial 9 then the number to call outside calls. But I have to call some psycho about a bike sale, and I tried *67, 9 or 9, *67 and neither worked.

Anyone know how to do this?
 

Tenchiro

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Jul 19, 2002
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sanjuro said:
Normally, I dial 9 then the number to call outside calls. But I have to call some psycho about a bike sale, and I tried *67, 9 or 9, *67 and neither worked.

Anyone know how to do this?
Depends on your PBX, but mostl likely you can't.
 

binary visions

The voice of reason
Jun 13, 2002
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*67, 9 won't work because you need to be on an outside line in order to use *67.

I have no idea why 9, *67 won't work, though. How do you know it doesn't work? You aren't calling inside your own bike shop to test it, are you? Because that might cause something funny with the *67, like computer data routing inside its own network acts differently, even if the connection initially went outside the network (i.e. to an external IP) and came back in.
 

sanjuro

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binary visions said:
*67, 9 won't work because you need to be on an outside line in order to use *67.

I have no idea why 9, *67 won't work, though. How do you know it doesn't work? You aren't calling inside your own bike shop to test it, are you? Because that might cause something funny with the *67, like computer data routing inside its own network acts differently, even if the connection initially went outside the network (i.e. to an external IP) and came back in.
I did try 9, *67; no luck of course. This is not my shop, but rather my big office phone system, and I wasn't even able to find a manual on how to program the buttons.
 

mogulskr

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Aug 28, 2002
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More often then not on a office phone system your personal number won't be displayed. Usually the trunking number will come up, have you checked to see if you number shows up on outside lines?
 

Changleen

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Jan 9, 2004
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It depends on your PABX or whatever calling system you have in place. Some will do it, others won't. Actually most will but it has to be enabled.