[Asterisk-Users] Reverse number lookup

[Dr. Rich Murphey]

Has anyone approached VoicePulse Connect about forwarding Caller Name?

Given the interest, it could be an effective way to differentiate service
among competitors.

Rich 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Bill Merriam
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 4:52 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Reverse number lookup
> 
> Voicepulse Connect provides callerid number, but not name.  
> If the caller isn't already in my database I would like to do 
> a reverse number lookup on the net to get a name.  There are 
> several web sites that allow you to do exactly that, for 
> free.  To do that from * would require that I write scripts 
> to run the web query and get the name off the results 
> page.   Some of the sites I looked at have terms of service 
> that don't 
> allow you to use scripts.  Presumably they want you to read 
> the ads on their web page while you are doing your query.
> 
> Google provides reverse number lookup on their web site, and 
> they have an XML/SOAP API you can use to do web searches but 
> the API won't do phone number lookups.
> 
> Some commercial services provide XML/SOAP reverse number 
> lookups.  They don't quote prices (if you have to ask, you 
> can't afford it) but expect volumes of 5000 or more lookups 
> per month.  My volume would be more like 5.
> 
> My local PSTN callerid gives you the city name of the caller 
> if they don't know their name.  It is a nice feature.  I 
> could figure out the call center, which is more or less the 
> city, from data available from the North American Numbering 
> Plan folks.
> 
> Does anybody know of a good reverse number lookup solution 
> for Asterisk?  Perhaps I should offer to pay VP Connect 
> $1/month more if they give me the name and save me a lot of trouble.
> 
> Bill
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