Caller ID on other end

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 05, 2004 Posts: 1

I just got my phone number transfered to Vonage, actually only took about 2 weeks with SBC, but now when I call people who have caller ID, the name that shows up is "Vonage Holdings" as opposed to my name. Is this normal? I know my virtual number hasn't been canceled yet, so will my name start appearing on the caller ID after that number has been disconnected? Or is there something else I need to do?

Cedric

Posts: 3 · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

I have had this show up on other's caller id since I joined over a year ago... I can't get anyone to fix it either. If you have luck doing it please send me a how to.

thanks

eric

Posts: 79 · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:56 pm Post subject:

Call Vonage Tech Support. I'm sure our Engineers can fix that.

Posts: 3 · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:40 am Post subject:

have tried twice first time the guy was really nice and the second they told me that I had to try and call local carrier to fix it myself. So I gave up for awhile and then I will hope for a better cust. service rep. Anything you can do?

thanks

eric

Posts: 79 · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:16 am Post subject:

No, nothing I can do about Caller ID issues. They must b corrected in the servers by our engineers.

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 20, 2004 Posts: 1

After reading the response that this issue was able to be corrected, I called tech support and had the "Vonage Holdings Inc" removed as my caller ID info. The problem I have now is that they changed it to show "Unknown". So, I called back and asked them to change it to my name. The guy told me that Vonage does not support Caller ID names. Now how in the hell does this make sense? I asked why is it you can program it to send "Vonage Holdings Inc", but you can't program it to send my name? Did I get someone that doesn't know what they are doing or did he just not want to go that "extra mile" for the paying customer?[/b]

Posts: 19 · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject:

Vonage doesn't "send" anything for a CallerID name. Check out this post in another forum for a very good explanation about how CallerID Name information is provided:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11327439~mode=flat