Your editorial on Caller ID couldn`t have been more wrong. Every day I make dozens of calls to clients from my private home phone. If I want them to have the private number, why shouldn`t the option be mine and not theirs?
Why should I have to be bothered by unwanted phone calls at all hours?
Why should I have to put up with unwanted business solicitations, and, perhaps worst of all, recorded solicitations, simply because I called once for some information? Why should my privacy in my own home be annihilated simply because a few cranks make a few calls to unknown recipients who merely need hang up the phone?
If I want a private phone number, and am willing to pay for it, why shouldn`t I have it?
When you write Caller ID ”. . . (is) an improvement that most would welcome,” whom do you mean by ”most”? I have not spoken to a single homeowner or apartment dweller who favors this ”improvement.” Everyone I know is vehemently against it.
