[Asterisk-Users] Setting Caller ID after Dial

[Rich Adamson]

> > The CallerID that is seen by others on calls originating from your  
> > PRI is set by your PRI provider; you have no control from Asterisk  
> > about this as it gets overridden by the provider. You must contact  
> > your carrier and ask them to set the CallerID for all PRI lines to  
> > the desired name/number.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bryce Chidester
> 
> There must be different types of PRI lines because I was really shocked 
> when I started testing my Asterisk box on my PRI and the people 
> receiving the calls were flipping out because their caller id display 
> was showing my 3 digit SIP extensions.  I wanted all outbound calls to 
> have the same callerid so I did it like this:
> 
> extensions.conf
> 
> [trunklocal]
> exten => _6NXXXXXXXXX,1,SetCallerID(<youroutboundnumber>)
> exten => _6NXXXXXXXXX,2,Dial(${TRUNK}/${EXTEN:${TRUNKMSD}})
> exten => _6NXXXXXXXXX,3,Congestion
> 
> There was also a callerid option in zapata.conf, but I don't think it 
> had any affect for me.  Good luck!!

In the US, the option by the telco's to accept or reject incoming
calleridnum is purely a telco choice. Some allow it while others don't.
I don't know of any that accept calleridname, but there could be some.