VOIP caller ID & porting questions

[Shan21]

Hi everyone,
We are finally going to be shifting to Fibre from ADSL in the next week or two and are debating porting the landline no. to VOIP or just dropping it altogether.
My occupation requires making lots of calls and I'm thinking VOIP might be more cost effective, but I'm not keen on clients seeing my family's home number on caller ID and (potentially) using it to call me on.
My question: Is it possible to make calls from a VOIP number but occassionally set it to show my cell number on the caller ID - just for the outgoing calls that I make?
Also, does the fibre have to be in place before porting or can the number be ported to a VOIP account prior to the ADSL/Fibre switch?

Thanks

 

[Geoff.D]

Hi everyone,
We are finally going to be shifting to Fibre from ADSL in the next week or two and are debating porting the landline no. to VOIP or just dropping it altogether.
My occupation requires making lots of calls and I'm thinking VOIP might be more cost effective, but I'm not keen on clients seeing my family's home number on caller ID and (potentially) using it to call me on.
My question: Is it possible to make calls from a VOIP number but occassionally set it to show my cell number on the caller ID - just for the outgoing calls that I make?
Also, does the fibre have to be in place before porting or can the number be ported to a VOIP account prior to the ADSL/Fibre switch?

Thanks

You can theoretically port to VoIP wwhenever you want.
But, you should do your due diligence thoroughly before you make that move. Make sure you are getting the good deal you think you are going to get from the move.
The old rule still applies, get your basic services from the infrastructure service provider and do whatever you want with value added services.

 

[Shan21]

You can theoretically port to VoIP wwhenever you want.
But, you should do your due diligence thoroughly before you make that move. Make sure you are getting the good deal you think you are going to get from the move.
The old rule still applies, get your basic services from the infrastructure service provider and do whatever you want with value added services.

Thanks Geoff will do a lot of research on deals and costs.
Any ideas on the other question - re: selecting the VOIP to show a different caller ID at the times I'm making work-related calls?

 

[dillydog]

In theory you can send whatever cli you like over VOIP, however there are rules from ICASA that mandate what numbers can be sent, to my knowledge you may not send a cell number over a VOIP service. But you could send your ported number or hide the number all together. I would suggest porting your home number and then setting up a second number for your work calls so when you make a work call the same number is always displayed. Most IP phones are multi line and can do this easily. You simply press button A to call from your home line or Button B to call from work...

Thanks

 

[deweyzeph]

My experience has been that when you port your Telkom landline number to a VOIP provider they will give a primary number that starts with 087 and then will link your ported landline number to the same SIP account, effectively giving you 2 numbers linked to the same SIP account. And then from the control panel you can then choose which number to use for caller id, or you can choose to not have any caller id at all.