[asterisk-biz] Mobile Termination via GSM Gateways

[Steve Totaro]

Nate Carlson wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Steve Totaro wrote:
>   
>> Unlimited plans. Family plans with many shared minutes (base charge plus 
>> $10/mo per extra phone or SIM).
>>     
>
> I see a few really annoying things with this:
>
> 1) How do you know what calls are going to what mobile network for your 
> routing?
>
> 2) Is it possible to set outgoing Caller*ID on a GSM card? If not, all 
> calls will show up as the phone number for the SIM that you're dialing out 
> on.
>
>   
Maybe I do not understand your first question.  You would use pattern 
matching in the dialplan and priority jumping for failover use.

As for #2, it is not possible to set the Caller*ID number but T-Mobile 
(at least) can set the name.  Mine shows as my billing name, I suspect 
if you were using a corporate account, the corp's name would show.  They 
could probably change the name with a simple phone call.

The number issue is pretty much a non-issue.  How do you think people 
have survived all of these years with POTS lines sending different numbers?

Thanks,
Steve Totaro