[asterisk-biz] Carriers not allowing CallerID to be set to a 800 number?

[Brian Fertig]

Molten accepts 800 ANI's for outbound traffic.  You are free to try us out.


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Brian Fertig
Director of Engineering
Molten, Inc.
Delaware Office
Office 800.418.4380 x 160
Direct 302.338.9601


|-----Original Message-----
|From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-
|bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mike Benoit
|Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:45 PM
|To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
|Subject: [asterisk-biz] Carriers not allowing CallerID to be set to a
|800 number?
|
|I've been with Teliax for a few years now and they have been great,
|however recently they stopped allowing us to set our callerID to the 800
|number we have with them. Here is their explanation:
|
|"Effective April 16th please note that all outbound dialing will need to
|pass a valid *LOCAL* 10 digit number for your callerid. This applies to
|callerid set using the Teliax portal or your own SIP/IAX user agent.
|This change is the result of carrier push to raise rates on termination.
|We do not intend to raise rates in the foreseeable future but must take
|action to control our costs. As such, any calls passed through teliax
|with a non-valid callerid (this means toll-free CID as well) will be
|allowed to pass but with a newly generated interstate caller ID."
|
|Is this something that will be happening across the industry, or is it
|specific to Teliax? This is causing us all sorts of problems, so is
|there a good VOIP company out there that:
|
|a. You can actually call and get a hold of someone.
|b. Offers US-48+Canada toll-free DIDs.
|c. Central or West coast servers.
|d. Decent rates, in the 2.0cents/min range preferably.
|
|I hate to leave Teliax, but this is pretty much forcing us to do so.