[Asterisk-Users] Setting Caller ID after Dial

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Matt Fredrickson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:37:34PM -0500, Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote:
> 
>>Bryce Chidester wrote:
>>
>>>The CallerID that is seen by others on calls originating from your  PRI 
>>>is set by your PRI provider; you have no control from Asterisk  about 
>>>this as it gets overridden by the provider. You must contact  your 
>>>carrier and ask them to set the CallerID for all PRI lines to  the 
>>>desired name/number.
>>
>>Wrong!
>>
>>Your carrier can allow you to set your own Caller*ID NUMBER.  Some 
>>carriers do this by default, some on request, some refuse to do so.
>>
>>Your carrier lets us set our Caller*ID NUMBER to anything we want.
>>
>>The Caller*ID NAME you have no control over.  It will show up as 
>>whatever name is associated with the number.
> 
> 
> Some carriers will also let your set your name too ;-)

Yes, but if you know that, then I'm sure you know that the terminating 
carrier almost always looks up the name themselves and set the name to 
whatever is in the name/number database.



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