Hi everyone, I've just changed my cell phone plan with Rogers to take advantage of their new My5 plan - free incoming and outgoing to 5 Canadian DIDs (plus long distance fees, where applicable).
I've got my Asterisk box set up with a DISA service (authenticated!), so all of my outbound can now be free of charge - if I can be bothered to key in the phone number each time. As an aside - anyone have any neat DISA dial-plan logic that makes initiating a new call to frequently called numbers easier? Or should I "simply" pre-pend my numbers in my cell phone with the DISA number, password, etc? Inbound is the kicker, though, and the real reason for this post. Can someone let me know if there is any way around the following problem: to qualify as a free call, all calls to my cell that I initiate or forward from my PBX will need a My5 caller ID number. As Rogers doesn't seem to support caller ID names (only numbers), this means I won't be able to tell who is calling, or whose calls I have missed. Can anyone see a way around this? Thanks, Dave.
