[asterisk-users] CNAM.

[James FitzGibbon]

On 6/17/07, Nick Seraphin <asterisk at eaglequest.com> wrote:
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> Yes... 1.5 cents per dip...  you prepay the fees... and they deduct from
> the prepaid amount.  You can start with $5.00 which seems like a low-risk
> to "check it out" at least.
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> The CLEC I use is more expensive that that for CNAM, and they want to do
> it on EVERY incoming call, even wrong numbers, whether it's answered or
> not, per PRI.  So since I get several thousand wrong numbers a month, and
> only 100 or so calls that I actually CARE what the CNAM is on those calls,
> I can set it up in Asterisk to only do the dip for certain DNIS numbers.
>
> I calculated that instead of $70+/month this will cost me $1.50/month.
> Nice savings. :-)
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> I just hope it's reliable when the call volume picks up more.
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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.

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).

On the upside, it did find "PIZZA PIZZA" correctly.  /sigh

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.

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)

-- 
j.
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