[asterisk-users] Caller ID (name) - where does it come from?

[Karl Fife]

p.s.
Once you've got a reliable CNAM source, you can save a few bucks per month on all of your POTS lines & PRI spans by opting out of the carrier-provided CNAM. 
IIRC, We save something like $40 per month per span on our PRI's & $3 per month per line by opting out of CNAM.  When a call comes in we populate it ourselves using a quick HTTP GET. 

-Karl 







----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barry D. Hassler 
  To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:40 PM
  Subject: [asterisk-users] Caller ID (name) - where does it come from?


  Hi Folks, having an issue with outbound calls through a VOIP provider. Calls get sent out with the CallerID(number), but where does callerID(name) come from? Apparently not from provider, as we are seeing different (sometime missing) names on inbound calls, different than what we have configured. Apparently this comes from some telco database somewhere? Numbers were ported from a wired-telco.



  -- 
  Barry D. Hassler
  President, HCST

  http://www.hcst.net/
  937-427-9000



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