[asterisk-biz] WTB: CNAM database

[Alex Balashov]

Indeed.

Significantly - if irrelevantly - the same is true of the LERG and of 
LNP dips.  In the case of the former, it's Telcordia protecting the 
revenue stream derived from the exclusivity of the information, and in 
the case of the latter it is dressed up as a matter of confidentiality 
and privacy vis-a-vis the end-users and carriers.

Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 22:22 -0500, Alex Balashov wrote:
>> VIP Carrier wrote:
>>
>>> So show is maintaining it?
>> Mostly the ILECs.
>>
> 
> also note that most ilecs do not like caching, reselling, or many other
> things. I had not really been following this thread, so I dont know if
> this was brought up before or not.  
> 
> Generally when you get CNAM data, you have to sign a contract that
> prevents you from doing any of the things that decreases the ilec
> revenue stream, and that if you give this information to anyone they
> have to have similar restrictions placed upon them to prevent a backdoor
> type approach where you set up two companies, one that just forwards
> info to the other who caches and distributes it at will.  
> 
> So if you do get access to a CNAM database be sure to look at the
> contracts and make certain its usable and dont just trust that it will
> be.  
> 
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