why don’t text messages from unknown (real) numbers have caller-ID-like identification?

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We’ve had caller ID available to us for decades, and emails have names associated with them when sent, even when not in the receiver’s contact. I am wondering, why don’t text messages (SMS) have the same details communicated? It’s a phone number just like caller ID would be able to read.

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> emails have names associated with them when sent  

Email “from” is easy to fake, even easier than it is to fake caller ID.  

The email industry tries very hard and spends billions of dollars to fight email spam.  For every scam email you see, there are 100 more that were filtered before they landed in your inbox. 

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