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Vonage You are correct. There is no Outbound caller ID.
Now next question since you
You are correct. There is no Outbound caller ID.
Now next question since you are obviously a Telcom genius and understand what it takes to provide name on caller ID.
1) How much more would you be will to pay Vonage each month for you bill?
To add this feature would not be free and would probably increase the rate plan by more then 5 dollars a month. What everyone does not understand is that Vonage does not have LEC status. They do not own a CNAM database nor do they own the phone numbers they provide their customers. These are leased lines from the Inbound LEC's that terminate calls to Vonage. There are many carriers and depending upon your NPA-NXX, this is how it is determined which carrier's switch your number will be built into.
In order to provide name on caller ID, Vonage would have to set up an agreement with each of these carriers and every subscriber that Vonage gets, they would have to send an update to the provider who owns the number to populate that carriers CNAM database with the Vonage customer's Account Name. Then each time a customer canceled, the name would have to be removed and the process would recycle each time the number is re-issued. All of this has cost in addition to the maintenance fees that would need to be paid to maintain the database.
The biggest problem with Vonage or any standalone Voip company is the 3rd party dependencies that are needed. You cannot compare a Ma Bell company that has been established over 100 years to a Voip company that has been around less then 10. AT&T, Verizon, SBC, Qwest, etc... all terminate both their own inbound and outbound calls and have their own CNAM databases. Vonage has certain carriers to terminate inbound calls and other carriers to terminate outbound calls and highly depend upon these LEC's to get the job done. This includes the passing and storing of caller ID.
So if everyone who now pays 24.99 for their unlimited calls and loves it because it saves money, would be willing to pay 34.99 for the same rate plan but to now have outbound caller ID name, I am sure Vonage would set up a program with this carriers to get this done. Only issue then would be customer base and growth. There would be less people signing on and more people leaving if the margin of savings narrowed between Vonage and the Telcom giants.
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VonTechMgr posted "You are correct. There is no Outbound caller ID.
Now next question since you" on 11/21/2008 |
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