[arm-allstar] Phone Patch Caller ID

[Doug Crompton]

You might also be confusing caller ID name and caller ID number. Names are not passed they are looked up by whatever provider is passing you the call based on the number against a name database they subscribe to or define. Numbers are assigned by your provider. A reputable provider would not pass a number that was not assigned but yes there are unscrupulous providers and since the Internet is worldwide and so are providers US law really has no meaning. Most providers either use your billing name or just something like "wireless caller" or a state name for your caller ID name but there is a (usually paid) process to change the name. The whole process is quite a mess as providers handle name lookups differently and when you switch providers the name doesn't always follow.  

You can lookup a name based on a number at various sites -

http://www.calleridtest.com/

You can add cnam lookup directly in Asterisk or pay a provider to supply it.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/CNAM

Changing a cnam has to be done through your provider and usually a fee is charge. I don't know how much if any checking is done or who is ultimately in charge of a cnam database so probably anything you see in caller ID name could be bogus.
73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


> From: ron at morell.us
> To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:18:06 -0700
> Subject: [arm-allstar] Phone Patch Caller ID
> 
> So I bridged my telephone PBX to the AllStar PBX and setup autopatch
> from the AllStar Node through the telephone PBX to the PSTN. It works
> nicely, but the Caller ID comes up on the answering Telephone as
> 0000000000. I'm trying to find a way to have it come up as KA7U. I could
> provide the CLI> terminal run on either or both Asterisk switches if
> that would help, but I'm guessing it is some magic word thing in
> extensions config that would do the trick.
> 
> Thanks for considering this.
> Ron
> KA7U
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