This (fraud?) was brought to my attention today. An interesting idea, I don't know if it's genuine or not, as I have not purchased it. What interests me more is the concept behind the product: the ability to generate CID tones after-the-fact in order to populate caller ID devices with customizable data. It plays (supposedly) a series of tones that simulate the CID tones to which many caller ID boxes listen. If this is a viable idea, perhaps it could be written into Asterisk as an application or extension.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3012540984
Downsides:
- obviously only changes CID after call recipient has picked up call
- probably plays loud modem (Bell 202?) noises into the call
- the "real" caller ID is still in memory of the call recipient's caller ID system
- will probably not work with PBX systems that take CID and run with it, and ignore further updates
Upsides:
- would allow me to use multiple analog lines with consistent outbound appearance
- would allow me to overflow CID buffers to remove my original CID with junk (marginally useful)
- ? others
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