On 12/22/09 1:31 PM, Peter Beckman wrote:
I'm kinda sick of all of us US-based folk thinking we don't have to use our country code. I think all wholesale VoIP providers, even if they just handle US/Canada, should require the use of the leading country code for all calls, NANPA-terminated included, and for origination that CallerID should ALWAYS include the country code.
I agree that country code plus number is the bare minimum, but I've only run into one carrier that refused to ("couldn't") do that. Ironic because they also do international origination, so calls are delivered to us without any way to know if they are US area+number or country+number.
You know how hard it is to standardize, both internally and globally, when most telecom providers only support 10 digit caller ID? What about the UK? What about China? And when callerID comes in, and it doesn't conform to NANPA NPANXXXXXX, what country IS it from? I can guess, but I'd like to know, not guess.
I've never run into an issue with the CID side of things. I don't think it's that important, but maybe others do. We just pass it along as it is. -- Carlos Alvarez TelEvolve 602-889-3003 Advanced phone services simplified