Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Ken Abrams Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 800 ANI - Is the Whole Number Neccessary? Message-ID: <10509@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Aug 90 21:36:52 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Ken Abrams Organization: Athenanet, Inc., Springfield, Illinois Lines: 32 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 545, Message 14 of 15 In article <10462@accuvax.nwu.edu> mtv@milton.u.washington.edu (David Schanen) writes: >In article <10445@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Higdon >writes: >>Ok, folks, time to set this straight. There is confusion here. 800 ANI >>sends the CALLING number NOT the billing number. ........ > Thanks for confirming that for us John! Now for an un-confirmation........ Sorry I missed the original post but it appears that there is still some confusion. The reason being, undoubtedly, that it works slightly differently depending on where the call originates and MAY even work differently from different lines in the same C.O. In addition to the "real" number, a billing number can be programmed into the serving switch (telco, that is, not PBX). If this is done, then the billing number is all that is ever sent out as ANI and the 800 provider can provide only that since it is all he knows. It is not common practice to do that so in most cases John is correct (but there are exceptions). Ken Abrams uunet!pallas!kabra437 Illinois Bell kabra437@athenanet.com Springfield (voice) 217-753-7965