[asterisk-users] Caller ID (name) - where does it come from?

[Steve Totaro]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Frank Bulk<frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:
> Intersting.  Vitelity is charging for something that they might already be
> getting paid for.  Of course, updating a name for a number takes time, and
> so that's probably why they can justify charging the customer something.
> Most times when you sign up you specify how you want the directory listing
> to look, and that's what is sold/delivered to CNAM vendors and aggregators.
>
> I'm not sure what Vitelity means by "a national database" and "this
> database".  As I discussed before, a telephony provider can choose pretty
> well any CNAM vendor they want.  Beyond the ones that were mentioned by
> someone else in an e-mail, there's also VeriSign, Neustar, and Syniverse.
> It's an oversimplification to tell the customer that it's *a* database --
> Vitelity may sell their data to just one CNAM vendor/aggregator, but that
> doesn't mean every CNAM vendor's database has now been updated.
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John A. Sullivan III [mailto:jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:23 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Cc: frnkblk at iname.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Caller ID (name) - where does it come from?
>
> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 16:54 -0400, Barry D. Hassler wrote:
>> This is all excellent information. My primary issue is for calls that
>> are placed FROM my client's PBX, via VOIP provider (Teliax). The
>> recipients of those calls are the ones that are not getting the proper
>> CNAM information as the call comes in.
>>
>> We just recently ported the client's POTS lines to VOIP, and with the
>> exception of this issue, all is working well. But, my client is really
>> unhappy that their callerID NAME isn't showing up.
>>
> <snip>
> I was very curious about this myself.  We successfully set the CallerID
> number by creating different contexts for our various offices and using
> a Set(CALLERID(num)=xxxxx) call.  But we could not set the name so I
> asked our new carrier (Vitelity - with whom we have been quite pleased
> thus far).  This is their response to us:
>
> We can have the name set for this number, however there is a one time
> passthrough charge of $xx per number for the update. Outbound caller ID
> is updated into a national database called LIDB (line information
> database), it is the final terminating provider that is responsible for
> querying this database and delivering it to their customers.
>>
> --
> John A. Sullivan III
> Open Source Development Corporation
> +1 207-985-7880
> jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com


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