[VoiceOps] IAM callername instead of CNAM

Lee Riemer lriemer at bestline.net
Thu Feb 4 11:44:23 EST 2010


Sounds like CNAM caching.

On 2/4/2010 10:13 AM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
> On 2/4/10 7:59 AM, David Birnbaum wrote:
>> It sure sounds like it.  TWTC is "cheating", I suppose, and depriving
>> the rightful owner of that number of their CNAM revenue (should you take
>> the carrier view of things).
>>
>> Regardless of what the "best" answer is, in the US all carriers are
>> supposed to deliver CNAM by dipping the central database, paying the
>> owning carrier, and delivering the result to their subscriber. But
>> that's really a discussion for another thread.
>
> Another "cheater" that has a very annoying policy...  Cox 
> Communications seems to have a 6-18 month lag in their CNAM update 
> policy.  I really don't know how they do it (download and store all 
> CNAM?), but all CNAM changes take a very long time to reach their 
> customers.  It's a source of constant complaints when our customers 
> (businesses) call their homes (Cox) and get an old CNAM.
>
>


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