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Vonage Outgoing caller ID will just show your phone number. (If it is showing Vonage now,
Outgoing caller ID will just show your phone number. (If it is showing Vonage now, that will cease shortly.) Vonage does not show names in outgoing caller ID. You will, however, see names in incoming caller ID's if they are being sent to you.
One thing to be think about is that Vonage can usually only power 5 (or possibly 6) phones to ring. Do a search on REN (ringer equivalence number) and you'll understand this issue and how you can deal with it.
If you use a cordless phone with expansion headsets, you only use the equivalent of one phone for all the headsets on the cordless system. You can then put 4 (or possibly 5) corded handsets in the regular phone jacks and have them ring fine.
If you have not already done so, be sure you physically disconnect the telco system from your house before plugging your Vonage adapter into you house phone wiring. There is voltage coming in from the telco (even on cancelled service), which can fry the Vonage adapter.
Now if you're going to do an LNP, that may take a couple of months or more. In the meantime, you cannot cancel that service or you won't be able to do an LNP and you'll lose your other number. During the waiting period, you may want to forward your old landline number to your temporary Vonage number. To implement that forwarding, you must be calling from a handset connected to the landline of your old service - so be sure to set up the forwarding before you disconnect the telco wiring!
Good luck.
Fletcher
Read The Full Thread: Questions before I sign up ...
• Hi, interested in Vonage, but I haven't signed up yet.
We have 7 phone jacks
• How come Vonage doesn't show the name for outgoing for caller ID?
• Don't know. Your number also will not be listed in 411 directory services unless
• since this thread is continuing, I wanted to make a couple clarifications.
outgoing
• Hmm....kinda wish I'd have known these things before going into my Vonage service.
• What is "POTS" (sorry, still learning the lingo)? When I call someone with a regular
• P lain O ld T elephone S ervice
• What is "POTS" (sorry, still learning the lingo)?
Jerry
Thank you!! :-)
• Man, that is news to me and that's actually a huge deal. I know so many people who
Fletcher posted "Outgoing caller ID will just show your phone number. (If it is showing Vonage now," on 02/19/2005 |
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