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

[Steve Totaro]

I was passing an 800 for outbound CallerID and ANI on a DS3 from Global 
Crossing.  There where only a few times when calls would be rejected and 
only when dialing another toll free.  Gateway computers was one of them, 
or rather their provider would block.  The reason was billing, they had 
no way of knowing how to bill.  Since we had a flat rate for all 
outbound, it never affected anything other than dialing very few other 
toll frees.

I never got a chance to clear it up, I made a temporary fix to set the 
caller id to a local number if the dialed number matched one of the 
known toll frees that were blocking.  The CEO wanted to send the toll 
free CallerID.  I also added a prefix of 7 to route to an outbound 
dialplan that passed a local number as a bypass.

I was about to try this:

Set(CALLERID(number)=8004444444)
set(CALLERID(ANI)=<4105551212>)

But never got the opportunity to try it.  It seems that you can set ANI 
and CallerID to be different.

If someone can try this and report success or failure, it may help many 
people out.

Thanks,
Steve

Paul wrote:
> On are occasions I get one that has a meaningful name displayed with the
> toll-free number. BankofAmerica is one that I remember seeing a few
> times. As a general rule, I don't answer calls from tollfree numbers. I
> know there are a few calling card services that send the tollfree as
> caller id rather than the true caller. I let the users know that was the
> reason they had to leave me voicemail.
>
> I would never consider sending tollfree as caller ID unless I could get
> cnam set like BankofAmerica does. From what i see I guess the majority
> of tollfree providers don't offer that option.
>
> By the way, none of the BankofAmerica calls was worth answering. They
> were just telemarketing to existing account holders.
>
> Matt wrote:
>
>   
>> Not to totally change the subject.. but you've actually been able to
>> make calls passing 800xxxxxx as your CALLER-ID?   Alot of places will
>> block your calls if you do that (and I don't mean VoIP carriers).
>>
>> On 4/18/07, *Mike Benoit* <ipso at snappymail.ca
>> <mailto:ipso at snappymail.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>
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