Do Landlines Have The Ability To Block Your Number?

Answer 1

Um yes and no. In the olden days when I was a kid younger than you, no, they didn't. But... there was no caller ID so no one knew in advance who was calling. Thus, there was no need to block your call before you sent it.

After touch tone was invented (late 60's early 70's, that's 1970's, not 1870's), the caller ID came out maybe 10 years later - and so the touch tone was used to temporarily block your call from other people's caller ID units by dialing, I believe, *67 before you dialed the number you wanted. Each landline provider had their own instructions on how to block a call on a per-call basis (usually that information is within the first few pages of that company's phone book - BellSouth, AT&T, SWB, whatever, there are gobs of places across the USA.).


Yep, on my land line, I just dialed *67 and then dialed out my cell phone - and when my cell phone rang, it said "private".

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

only the feature you get thru your phone provider, and that is usually not what you want....the only way you really can intercept the calls you don't want like 800 or all telemarketers, etc....you will need a callerID manager....its a gizmo you plug in between the phone and wall jack!!!

Answer 3

You mean block you from calling them? Yes, they do. It's called "call block". It works very well! :)

~Cindy! :)