On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 12:36, Jim Archer wrote: > --On Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:11 AM -0800 William Walsh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I presume the problem is in the CallerIDName that shows up when you > > call a regular number through iconnecthere? > > It usually presents no caller ID, resulting in an anonymous call rejection > message.
The # is getting passed in all of my calls through them, but not always the correct name I set, depending on other things like I mentioned earlier. > > Technically the phone numbers "belong" to Deltathree, and in the telco > > systems that is how they are registered, and that is why your > > CallerIDName does not show up. I really do not know that > > deltathree/iconnecthere can do anything about that. It's a design issue > > in the system. Your system's sent data can't override the telco > > systems. > > Fair enough. But most of the people we call are customers at their homes. > Verizon and other carriers have given everyone "anonymous call rejection" > for free and, at least in the case of Verizon they have turned it on by > default. The result is that we can't call people through iconnect. I have > tried sending the code to enable passing caller ID but no luck. > > I just got to the point where I had dumped a lot of time into it and was > becoming convinced that I was not going to be able to get it to work. I > was also seeing issues with call connect reliability. It seems often that > Asterisk initiates a connection to iconnect but iconnect either fails to > notice or says it is temporarily unavailable. I see this occasionally myself. For the cheap price of the service, I chalk it up to a small price to pay normally. I do notice that sometimes you have to wait a minute between placing calls as well. > I didn't even look at the issue of whether or not we can make 2 or more > calls out through iconnect at the same time. That may work fine, I just > have not tried it. One outgoing call at a time per account. A silly restriction when you are paying for minutes, IMO, but one that does not appear to be unique to iconnect/deltathree in the VoIP termination industry. > I am happy to keep testing if it will be useful to anyone else, especially > the developers. I think you just have to decide if the limitations make it worthwhile or not. I wouldn't depend on iconnecthere as a sole means of making calls. I've been looking myself at signing up for packet8.net's service myself. For about twice as much as iconnecthere's service, you can get unlimited calling (with a 1 year contract). But that also is 1 outgoing call at a time. If you are looking at some serious call volume, you may want to approach deltathree's business development service for a custom arrangement that better meets your needs. I know a couple people on this list are working on IAX termination services as well that may be worthwhile checking out for business volume calling. -- William Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users