[asterisk-users] CNAM.

[Al Bochter]

If you want to look up phone numbers try and its FREE

http://www.asteriskextras.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=2

Best regards,

Al Bochter
Bochter Services

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James FitzGibbon wrote:

> On 6/17/07, *Nick Seraphin* <asterisk at eaglequest.com 
> <mailto:asterisk at eaglequest.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Yes... 1.5 cents per dip...  you prepay the fees... and they
>     deduct from
>     the prepaid amount.  You can start with $5.00 which seems like a
>     low-risk
>     to "check it out" at least.
>
>     The CLEC I use is more expensive that that for CNAM, and they want
>     to do
>     it on EVERY incoming call, even wrong numbers, whether it's
>     answered or
>     not, per PRI.  So since I get several thousand wrong numbers a
>     month, and
>     only 100 or so calls that I actually CARE what the CNAM is on
>     those calls,
>     I can set it up in Asterisk to only do the dip for certain DNIS
>     numbers.
>
>     I calculated that instead of $70+/month this will cost me $1.50/month.
>     Nice savings. :-)
>
>     I just hope it's reliable when the call volume picks up more.
>
>
> I gave this a shot yesterday.  I figure I can stand to lose $5 if it 
> sucks.  Which for someone in Canada, it does.  Granted, their website 
> is somewhat hazy on whether or not they support Canadian CNAM - part 
> of the page says "can I look up numbers outside the US and Canada" 
> while part says "outside the US", then the body says "we don't support 
> non-NANPA numbers".  Pretty much every number I have tried to look up 
> so far for Toronto/GTA just gives me back the city for the name, so I 
> get a bunch of "NORTH YORK ON" and "TORONTO ON" or "CELLPHONE ON" 
> results back, but no actual names.
>
> I've gotten a few correct hits back on company numbers, but just as 
> many wrong ones.  The Hilton in Edmonton's number comes back as "GTCO 
> CALCOMP", and a company I deal with in Mississauga (in the 905 NPA) 
> comes back as "ETOBICOKE ON" (which is in 416). 
>
> On the upside, it did find "PIZZA PIZZA" correctly.  /sigh
>
> Of course, this is all via their web portal.  I am completely unable 
> to connect via their AGI port as provided in their "sample 
> configuration" page.  I get connection refused, which under a stock 
> 1.2 Asterisk drops the call, so I can't leave the dialplan logic 
> intact in the hopes that this is a transient error.  Attempts to 
> telnet to the port given via their portal are met with an immediate 
> RST packet, suggesting that their fastagi service is down.
>
> At least the cost to play was cheap.  IMO, it's not ready for 
> production usage (at least under 1.2 - under 1.4 you can recover from 
> a failure to connect to an AGI service and continue dialplan execution)
>
> -- 
> j.
>
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