On 6/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Seraphin</b> <<a href="mailto:asterisk@eaglequest.com">asterisk@eaglequest.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Yes... 1.5 cents per dip... you prepay the fees... and they deduct from<br>the prepaid amount. You can start with $5.00 which seems like a low-risk<br>to "check it out" at least.<br><br>The CLEC I use is more expensive that that for CNAM, and they want to do
<br>it on EVERY incoming call, even wrong numbers, whether it's answered or<br>not, per PRI. So since I get several thousand wrong numbers a month, and<br>only 100 or so calls that I actually CARE what the CNAM is on those calls,
<br>I can set it up in Asterisk to only do the dip for certain DNIS numbers.<br><br>I calculated that instead of $70+/month this will cost me $1.50/month.<br>Nice savings. :-)<br><br>I just hope it's reliable when the call volume picks up more.
<br><br></blockquote></div><br>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.
<br><br>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).
<br><br>On the upside, it did find "PIZZA PIZZA" correctly. /sigh<br><br>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.
<br><br>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)<br><br>
-- <br>j.