It has been happening industry wide for over a year, and you will see it occurring more as carriers are being charged intrastate termination rates when they pass an 8xx number in caller ID field. I would say that you could probably shift providers and continue to do it the way you are today but be prepared/flexible for that carrier to hit you with bad news down the road.
Jay Kordic The Horizon Group Wholesale/Retail VOIP and TDM services 951-780-3131 (office) 951-850-0887 (mobile) 515-322-0273 (fax) MSN IM- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cellular/Wireless portal: http://www.inphonic.com/template/simpleautocontent.aspx?referringdomain=wtgc om&pageid=682&EID=6641 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Benoit Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:45 AM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: [asterisk-biz] Carriers not allowing CallerID to be set to a 800number? I've been with Teliax for a few years now and they have been great, however recently they stopped allowing us to set our callerID to the 800 number we have with them. Here is their explanation: "Effective April 16th please note that all outbound dialing will need to pass a valid *LOCAL* 10 digit number for your callerid. This applies to callerid set using the Teliax portal or your own SIP/IAX user agent. This change is the result of carrier push to raise rates on termination. We do not intend to raise rates in the foreseeable future but must take action to control our costs. As such, any calls passed through teliax with a non-valid callerid (this means toll-free CID as well) will be allowed to pass but with a newly generated interstate caller ID." Is this something that will be happening across the industry, or is it specific to Teliax? This is causing us all sorts of problems, so is there a good VOIP company out there that: a. You can actually call and get a hold of someone. b. Offers US-48+Canada toll-free DIDs. c. Central or West coast servers. d. Decent rates, in the 2.0cents/min range preferably. I hate to leave Teliax, but this is pretty much forcing us to do so. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
