The softphone executable file can be tweaked to display caller name along with the phone number. I would love to have the ability to edit the caller ID name. Hope Vonage will add this feature soon on regular line...
DallasFlier Vonage Forum Master
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Well the explanation for this was detailed and interesting, but the remarks made by DallasFlier also seem to be cogent. Any explanation for his observation that calls from a POTS line would show CID name, but calls from a Vonage line sending the _same_ number would not?
Thanks, Steve. I'm guessing here now, but there might be a clue in that long explanation from DSLReports that Hunter quoted here. Particularly the part that says:
"Bottom line, for Vonage, or any other Voip provider to make caller ID (number) work is trivial. All they do is send ANI with the call setup, which is done for every call on the PSTN anyway. To make name show up, they need to add a directory number record to the telco database with your name on it."
So, it sounds like Vonage needs to probably pay to subscribe to this "telco database", whatever that is - and then send essentially a "pointer" to the proper database record along with the caller ID itself, and apparently that's what the POTS company was doing and Vonage was not during the "dual" period I referred to. At least that sounds plausible to me.
Sounds reasonable, but now we have the input from Dhami220. It seems to say that your name _is_ in the data base, and the softphone user can control whether or not it gets displayed. That seems to contradict the idea that all of the control is at the receiving end.
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I called Vonage regarding something else and asked about the outgoing caller ID and he told me he had heard spring next year. He said they were looking into it now, and that was the latest he had heard about it. So maybe 3 or 4 months down the road.
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