[Asterisk-Users] iconnect & caller ID

[Jim Archer]

--On Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:11 AM -0800 William Walsh 
<william at wxw.org> wrote:

>  I presume the problem is in the CallerIDName that shows up when you
> call a regular number through iconnecthere?

It usually presents no caller ID, resulting in an anonymous call rejection 
message.

> Technically the phone numbers "belong" to Deltathree, and in the telco
> systems that is how they are registered, and that is why  your
> CallerIDName does not show up.  I really do not know that
> deltathree/iconnecthere can do anything about that.  It's a design issue
> in the system.  Your system's sent data can't override the telco
> systems.

Fair enough.  But most of the people we call are customers at their homes. 
Verizon and other carriers have given everyone "anonymous call rejection" 
for free and, at least in the case of Verizon they have turned it on by 
default.  The result is that we can't call people through iconnect.  I have 
tried sending the code to enable passing caller ID but no luck.

I just got to the point where I had dumped a lot of time into it and was 
becoming convinced that I was not going to be able to get it to work.  I 
was also seeing issues with call connect reliability.  It seems often that 
Asterisk initiates a connection to iconnect but iconnect either fails to 
notice or says it is temporarily unavailable.

I didn't even look at the issue of whether or not we can make 2 or more 
calls out through iconnect at the same time.  That may work fine, I just 
have not tried it.

I am happy to keep testing if it will be useful to anyone else, especially 
the developers.

Jim