remember that the ani should be the customer, many banks use this for authentication purposes (for example when you get a new credit/debit card). This was one issue vonage had because they set caller id but the ani was of their number and it causes a lot of consumer frustration.
There are legit reasons to set the ani to the customer and not the provider, especially for those that want to use it as a pots line replacement service. On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:09 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:56:06AM -0400, Peter Beckman wrote: > > On Fri, 9 May 2008, Steve Totaro wrote: > > > However, there should be a law against bogus ANI. > > > > So as a VoIP provider, what exactly is the ANI I should set? A phone > > number in the LATA in which my server is located? Any phone number I > > "own" or at least control? > > If the subscriber for whom you're transiting the call to the PSTN has a > dialable DN for that line, then you should use that number. If it's a > trunk-group type facility, any number which can be called to reach that > trunk group. If the particular facility is outbound only, any number > that addresses an inbound facility billed to the same customer, > preferably at the same physical location. > ideally it would be the number that the customer chooses that they have proven is theirs. However this becomes harder when you get resellers of resellers. You also have to have a database, which is checked for each and every call to see if that customer is allowed to dial out with that ani. This increases the switching cost to set up the call, increases the overall costs in terms of maintaining that database, and is not infallable (a customer may have the number one day and not the next). If it boils down to a fine, you can have a indemnify and hold harmless clause but for those to really be effective you have to have the person in a jurisdiction where they can be served and be forced to comply, which makes international customers difficult, it also means that they have to have enough to actually pay, if they dont you are still on the hook for the fine. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
