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williamconley wrote:as a rule, if you dial a landline (not another voip line from the same provider) you will ONLY get callerid NUMBER. You will never get the callerid NAME which you have sent through vicidial.
if, however, the number that you are dialing is with the same provider, they may actually retain the callerid NAME that you provided and pass it through.
the reason for this is that virtually all telecoms use an internal database for their calleridNAME service. they discard any name information provided, and pull the NAME from the matching record in their database.
so ... if you try dialing a regular land line or cell phone line, you will note that this behavior ceases immediately. in other words, no customers or prospects will ever have seen this information unless they use the same VOIP provider as you.
vicidial uses callerid NAME to track the call, as it is the only true way to solidly identify the call from inside vicidial that will survive the length of the call so that vicidial can manage that call without losing track of it.
since NOONE ever actually sees the callerid NAME (only the number), this is transparent to all people being called.
if you can find a VOIP provider capable of transmitting callerid NAME to regular land/cell lines, PLEASE tell me who it is. that would be one HECK of an advertising tool! (especially if you can set it dynamically in asterisk)
Op3r wrote:and my problem is I cant get vicidial to show the caller id number when dialing UK.
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