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Show who's calling

By My status Andrus on June 16, 2008 in Announcements, General, News, events, milestones.

Your mobile rings, you take the phone out and it says Unknown or a weird combination of numbers - and so you don't pick up the call. Sounds familiar?

This might have been someone calling your phone with Skype because only people that had bought online numbers could set them to show on their friends' phones when calling. Up until last week, anyway. Now anyone with a mobile phone can set its number to show when calling a landline or mobile from Skype.

Caller identification, as we call this feature, is easy to set up. Simply sign in to your account and follow the on-screen instructions. Please note that if you have previously set up your mobile number to show when sending SMS messages you don't need to verify the number again. Just choose to use the same number to show for SkypeOut calls.

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Setting caller identification is free to use and costs the price of two SMS messages to set up. It's available for almost any mobile phone and subscription type in almost every country of the world.

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Wow!!!
What a great function!
I've been waiting this since I first time use SkypeOut in three years ago, I knew it will happen!!!
Keep going Skype Dev team and thank you!

online.et | Wednesday, Jun 18

It's a good function for users,but skype should remind users because of some telecomm legal issue,some countries don't support this function,user can't use their call number as their Skypeout CLI!

daphnelu | Friday, Jun 20

This is great news. Hopefully they will allow using GrandCentral numbers as the caller ID if they can find some way to validate the number.

masilver | Wednesday, Jun 25

NewsNet Skype israel newspaper

skypeisrael972 | Monday, Jul 14

Thank you! FINALLY support for caller ID in the U.S. This is really great news.

ryanmiglavs | Thursday, Jul 17

I was glad to see some support for caller id finally... I've had tons of people not answer because no caller id... But, other than the confirmation of owned number issue, why can't I set it to my land line (home phone). That is what I want people to see.

Perhaps you could enter your land line number, the website asks for a code, my phone rings and a voice says "this is a skype confirmation call, your code is 12345. Please press 1 if you did not initiate this call and we will not allow your number to be setup again"... etc etc blah blah..

come on.. think about it... not so tough.. ;-)

aaronbsmith | Thursday, Aug 28

I was glad to see some support for caller id finally... I've had tons of people not answer because no caller id... But, other than the confirmation of owned number issue, why can't I set it to my land line (home phone). That is what I want people to see.

Perhaps you could enter your land line number, the website asks for a code, my phone rings and a voice says "this is a skype confirmation call, your code is 12345. Please press 1 if you did not initiate this call and we will not allow your number to be setup again"... etc etc blah blah..

come on.. think about it... not so tough.. ;-)

aaronbsmith | Thursday, Aug 28

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