Adonde when used on the telephone?

Question

What does adonde mean when used on the telephone?

Answer 1

When you answer the phone and the caller asks ¿A dónde hablo?, it's to know whom he or she has reached. Maybe the caller expected a business, and you've answered as though it's a home. Or the caller expected a male voice, and you're a woman. So: To where am I speaking?

Thank you. It was actually just on a list of words for my son's Spanish class but it was under the group por telefono. Most of the words on that list had very different meanings from their usual usage. - Tdluhos, Mar 22, 2017