[asterisk-users] Why using usecallerid=no?

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Paulo Garcia wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I'm in a discussion and someone ask me in which situation we should use the
> zapata.conf usecallerid set to no. I didn't have the answer.
> 
> I understand what the usecallerid keyword does but I'm talking about a
> actual situation that is interesting to to avoid receiving the caller id.

If you do not have Caller*ID service on your telephone lines then you 
would want to set usercallerid=no.  If you leave it set to yes, Asterisk 
will wait for Caller*ID information to arrive.  This will delay 
processing of calls by (typically) 6 seconds.