[Cialug]voip

[Dave Weis]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Nathan Stien wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007 12:35 PM, Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com> wrote:
>> Yes, they thought of that and the people that maintain the database
>> prohibit it :-) Besides that, you would need to determine how long to
>> cache things for.
>
> How open to competition is the provision of that database?

It's about as flexible as getting the .com registry away from Network 
Solutions.

> Might some new alternative caller-id database provider arise that
> allows caching?  My [admittedly totally naive] intuition suggests that
> the alternative company would have lower costs and could therefore
> charge less.

NeuStar (www.neustar.biz) has a monopoly on roughly anything that has a 
telephone number.

-- 
Dave Weis
djweis at internetsolver.com
http://www.internetsolver.com/