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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022 1:43 PM

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Wrong Caller ID

I've had Xfinity Mobile for over a year now and it has always shown the wrong Caller ID for me. I have called Xfinity numerous times and was always told that Xfinity uses the Verizon network and that Xfinity would contact Verizon to correct the problem. But the problem has yet to be corrected. Now I called and said that after a year of this perhaps Xfinity should issue me some sort of refund. This time I was told that the service does not include Caller ID! It's really wrong that customers are not told this when purchasing the service. So for all intents and purposes I remain a real estate company when I call someone! Well, I suppose that is better than being identified as a funeral home, lol. At this point I am mulling over cancelling the service although coverage in the Boston, MA area is good and the price is very reasonable. I've seen on this forum that other folks have the same problem. It's pretty off the wall.  

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3.9K Messages

3 years ago

Hello and thanks for taking the time to reach out to us on our Forums page. We appreciate you being a customer with us and it's upsetting to hear about the frustration and inconvenience we have caused you around this caller ID concern. Please follow this link https://comca.st/3fF0bOH., which lists all of the features included with our Xfinity Mobile service.

Xfinity Mobile support on social media is currently limited, and we only have access to help with general questions about pricing, service offers, and basic troubleshooting available on https://comca.st/3GTjksc. For the best assistance, please contact our Xfinity Mobile support center through any of the following methods: 

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@XfinityAmira  Thank you for your reply and concern. The link that you listed for included features of the service does indeed list only what I was most recently told: Caller ID is included for incoming calls with no mention of the Xfinity Mobile customer's ID. But it is too bad that when purchasing the service I was not told that my number would be listed as a real estate agency. I continue to consider cancelling the service for that reason.

Official Employee

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3.9K Messages

I absolutely understand your concerns, and we truly apologize that this was not fully explained to you when you purchased the phone. I hate that this has been your experience and your feelings are valid, but we most certainly do not want to lose you as a customer. I would strongly suggest reaching out to our Xfinity Mobile support team (again), as they are experts in all things Xfinity Mobile, and would love to make things right. Thank you and we absolutely appreciate you being the best part of Xfinity. 

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3 years ago

Mine just recently showed up as my old married name! I've been divorced for almost 20 years and one day it just showed up. They bill my real name but for some reason they put my previous married name as the called ID display name! I was on hold for almost an hour and another hour on the phone talking with a representative that was not very nice. She told me they don't offer called ID. Then said they could change it but that then no name would be displayed. I said that was better then my old married name. It's still there and that was a week ago. It's crazy and I don't understand how they even got that name!

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@user_1f5ef7, Could you please send our team a direct message with your full name and full address? Our team can most definitely take a further look at this issue. To send a "Peer to peer" ("Private") message:
Click "Sign In" if necessary
• Click the "Peer to peer chat" icon
• Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon
• Type "Xfinity Support" in the "To:" line and select "Xfinity Support" from the drop-down list which appears. The "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line
• Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window
• Press Enter to send it

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3 years ago

I have the same problem. I am positive that that issue is a growing problem as if that phone number was owned by another provider that offered caller id, when that number was cancelled or closed the database kept the name and that Xfinity can solve by simply blanking out caller id or offering caller id name and not just number 

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7 Messages

3 years ago

Same issue I have as well. When I make a call the caller ID says it's someone else.  After dealing with the stupid robot, I asked for a call back. The person who called back had a language barrier. I had to tell her the issue 3 different ways before she even had a clue. Then she tried to tell me that the problem was because the person I was calling had the wrong name in their contacts. That was so stupid that at that point I was irritated. And had to tell her that I verified it on my home phone which was also from Xfinity.  She put me on hold and then said that they would change it to say Wireless Caller or some generic name like that. I then said UNACCEPTABLE, I want it to show my name.  It already had a name that was wrong so why shouldn't they be able to make it say my name.  They finally told me that they would get it fixed and put me on hold again and we got disconnected. Then I called again today and they said they would re provision my line and to reboot my phone. Then I called my home phone to verify and the mobile phone said I had to hang up and do a *82.  When I did that it said it couldn't and to hang up and dial 611.  Which I did and had to go back through the menus and they asked me what the 4 digits of my payment card was again.  When I did they said that it didn't work and they couldn't help me. I had to request to be put through to a supervisor. Had to reboot the phone a couple more times and it still didn't work and they said they'd get back in a few minutes and after an hour I went to the Xfinity store, The guy there said that it was because the number was "Recycled.".   I was ready to go get my duct tape from the car and wrap my head so it wouldn't explode by then.  I had to argue with him and I suppose the supervisor heard me say "If you can't fix it, I'll be happy to cancel all my Xfinity services and take my business to Frontier (who just hung the Fiber Optic cable on the poles in my area and will be offering gig speed for $40.) and then they finally admitted that they didn't know how to fix it and opened a trouble ticket for the next level to address and fix. Did they ever fix your issue and if they do you know what they did? 

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@user_339bf9​ Wow!!  Reprovisioning is awfully extreme to fix the caller ID.  This is simply a data problem.  The database has the wrong value and needs to be updated, unfortunately I don't think anyone at Xfinity knows how to do that.  Part of the problem is Xfinity is using Verizon's network, so I have a feeling either Verizon didn't give Xfinity access to the interface to update the CNAM value or Xfinity's developers never put in place a feature to update the CNAM value.  If they did this should be a trivial change and should be as easy as changing your device name.  In fact when you change your device name it should automatically update the CNAM value to match.

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I know about the Verizon as that's what comes up if you go to www.calleridtest,com   and also when you do a query to find out what carrier owns the number.  Why Xfinity support is so stupid is beyond me. 

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3 years ago

Did anyone ever get a straight answer from Comcast/Xfinity on how to resolve this issue? I'm not seeing anything that helps.  I have the same issue.

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Hello @fedup2019, we can certainly understand the frustration of experience issues with the caller ID. We do have our team of experts that can assist with your mobile concerns. You can reach our Xfinity Mobile team by the following methods:

 

SMS Text Message: 1 (888) 936-4968
Phone: 1 (888) 936-4968

Chat: https://comca.st/3RuXtwC

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Problem Solver

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764 Messages

3 years ago

Caller ID and CNAM

Here is a link with some info on the issue:

https://support.sip.us/hc/en-us/articles/360015059391-What-is-CNAM-

Here is a link that might help you correct your CNAM:

https://www.truecnam.com/truespam_scores

Please let us know if you are successful with this or another method?

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