[asterisk-users] wrong outgoing caller id with PRI lines: maybe usecallingpres involved?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:48:21AM +0800, Leo Ann Boon wrote:
> A little clarification: when you send callerid out to the PSTN, it has 
> to match the format of the PSTN. Suppose your phone extension is 1000, 
> naturally its caller ID is 1000. That's fine and well for internal 
> calls. For an external call: when the PBX sends 1000 to the PSTN, the 
> exchange will reject it and send the pilot number instead.

You're an optimist.

Lots of switches don't do any verification at all.

Or do you know someone who's CNID is *really* 000-123-4567?   :-)

Last time I got into this (which was about 10 years ago), 5ESS's are
really picky, and DMS-100's don't much give a crap (or didn't then)

Cheers,
-- jra
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