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Caller ID says someone else's name
When I make a call from my cell phone to a landline in Texas, another person's name is displayed on the caller ID. How can I change it to my name?
As snn555 mentioned, caller ID when mixed with a landline can be an uphill battle to get changed. However, it may be possible to have it updated depending on the landline carrier. Have you contacted us via 611 or T-Force through Facebook/Twitter to see if we can get it updated on the backend yet? If not, that's the first step I would take.
There's really no way to change what displays as the caller's name. all sorts of phone exchanges handle the information that is broadcast whenever a customer from one company calls any other sort of phone line by another company be it landline or mobile.
Then there are a hundred apps out there that farm caller contact information from various users which employ their apps on their phones. for instance if enough people mark a number as spam certain apps will Mark that as spam and even block the calls.
what this has to do with you calling a landline where a landline does not have a caller ID app itself like a mobile phone can use is that there's no telling how many times your phone number has been reported by x number of people as x name.
It could have been a previous owner of the numbers name. Long story short there's really no way to change how your name appears on some other caller ID.
I have had my number show up on various carriers landline and mobile as my name as wireless caller as somebody else's name and have even had the city reported incorrectly as well as the state.
