Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007

We recently switched our Asterisk (now Trixbox) setup from POTS to SIP (and a backup IAX) providers and the first thing we did was to spoof the caller ID. By spoofing our phone number to that one assigned to the POTS on each outgoing call the remote caller sees “OWNWEBNOW CORPORATION” <4074656800> even though that may not be the outbound route our call took? 

Enter Paris Hilton (yes, THAT Paris): This is why I never blog about politics.

Now prank calling and checking your friends voicemail aside, are there any of you that have not protected your voicemail with a password? When a “Corporation XYZ” calls in do you not refuse to hand over the credit card information, refuse to answer surveys (that always turn into getting competitive info out of you), refuse to deal with phone solicitors no matter how great their offer is? Just like SPAM, the reason why these things flourish and persist is because people continue to support them by playing into them!

This is why I never blog about politics. Do we really need a discussion on why almost 80% of the American public disapproves of the performance of both the president and the congress? Do we really need the law to protect stupid blondes that is going to screw up the legitimate business need of having a reliable and identifiable phone service?

For more technical information on caller ID, the CNAM database, etc.