asterisk users - Jul 2007 - Why using usecallerid=no?

Hi everybody.

I'm in a discussion and someone ask me in which situation we should use the
zapata.conf usecallerid set to no. I didn't have the answer.

I understand what the usecallerid keyword does but I'm talking about a
actual situation that is interesting to to avoid receiving the caller id.

Thanks in advance!

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Pika Technologies
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I would think if one didn't want caller ID they wouldn't pay the phone 
company the extra couple bucks for it..  but just coincidence maybe :)

Paulo Garcia wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I'm in a discussion and someone ask me in which situation we should use
> the zapata.conf usecallerid set to no. I didn't have the answer.
> 
> I understand what the usecallerid keyword does but I'm talking about a 
> actual situation that is interesting to to avoid receiving the caller id.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
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> Paulo Garcia
> Pika Technologies
> 
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Paulo Garcia wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I'm in a discussion and someone ask me in which situation we should use
the
> zapata.conf usecallerid set to no. I didn't have the answer.
> 
> I understand what the usecallerid keyword does but I'm talking about a
> actual situation that is interesting to to avoid receiving the caller id.
If you do not have Caller*ID service on your telephone lines then you 
would want to set usercallerid=no.  If you leave it set to yes, Asterisk 
will wait for Caller*ID information to arrive.  This will delay 
processing of calls by (typically) 6 seconds.

If you dont' get callerid from your telco and usecallerid is set to
yes, then it will take at least an extra ring till it gets passed down
to the dialplan.

On 7/19/07, Paulo Garcia <paulo.astuser at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I'm in a discussion and someone ask me in which situation we should use
the
> zapata.conf usecallerid set to no. I didn't have the answer.
>
> I understand what the usecallerid keyword does but I'm talking about a
> actual situation that is interesting to to avoid receiving the caller id.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------
> Paulo Garcia
> Pika Technologies
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On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:55 -0300, Paulo Garcia wrote:
> I'm in a discussion and someone ask me in which situation we should
> use the zapata.conf usecallerid set to no. I didn't have the answer.
In the United States, the CallerID information comes as a short modem
tone (FSK data) between the first and second ring.  If you have the
usercallerid setting set to yes, Asterisk will wait until after the
first ring to get the CallerID data, and then pass the call on to the
dialplan.  If you have usercallerid set to no, Asterisk won't wait until
after the first ring to send the call to the dialplan.

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