[asterisk-users] Calling with hidden callerid

[Gordon Henderson]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Mike wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a wholesale provider that allows me to put any caller id I want when
> dialing out.  In some cases, I`d like the outgoing callerid to be hidden.
> How do I do this?
>
> I`ve set callerid name to "unknown", that works well, but when I put an
> empty number it goes out with the name "asterisk".  Which is NOT what I
> want.
>
> Is there a standard way to say "hid my number"?

You might want to ask your upstream how they would like you to do it... 
For example an upstream I use, wants me to prefix the number with "w", but 
they still want the number. They then translate it into withheld when they 
present it to the network...

Gordon