With CC having problems, any other free USA DID's with caller name?
Hortoristic:
With CC having problems, any other free USA DID's with caller name free service I can use?
I got one of them free NY Call Centric numbers, forward all GV numbers to this, and have the DID ring my house - this way I get free caller name. But with Call Centric still being so unstable, anyone know of any other DID providers I might use instead for my workaround for caller name?
I had been using Simon Gateway and it seemed to be working well enough - maybe I should just revert back to that.
BearJerCares:
Are you still having issues with Callcentric incoming caller ID or have your moved on? I also am having issues wit their caller ID only showing the incoming number, not the name, about half the time. I filed a ticket and was basically told they had no guarantees of support for the "free" telephone numbers - although I do pay $1.50 for the caller ID service and 911 service. Like you, I have Google Voice with my Obi device and only got the Callcentric phone number for caller ID.
If it is this unstable to provide adequate caller ID, with both name and number, I might want to pursue something else also. Can anyone shed light on this issue?
Hortoristic:
It has been working well lately for me.
CoalMinerRetired:
It's been working reliable for me also, since about February.
xzaphod:
I want to solve the problem of Google Voice not providing CNAM database lookups. Some documentation on voip.ms says you can get CID & CNAM and there's documentation that you can set your CNAM for a (one-time) fee of US $10 + some paperwork. It works for only some U.S. numbers though.
See http://wiki.voip.ms/article/Caller_ID for more information.
Another possibility I'm considering is a "free license" SIP server (on one of my spare computers) like SER (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIP_Express_Router). Set it up to forward to Callcentric or pick-your-favorite and, during incoming call setup, write a snip of code to go out to a big CNAM database with the CID and look up the CNAM. There's likely a small charge for each U.S. DID query but that's life. For outbound calls, you'll likely have to fill in the paperwork that voip.ms suggests, pay your fee, and get your phone number into the CNAM database.
Point your OBI at that SIP server but let the real work be done by whatever SIP server you forward to. Perhaps you could set up your OBI to fall back to your Callcentric SIP if your SIP server is unavailable?
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page