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We now support SMS on our US and Canada DIDs! Numbers can be SMS Enabled in less than an hour from the time you submit your order and we offer two different SMS Access Plans that provide some of the most aggressive messaging rates currently available in VoIP!

Looking for a solution on the go? Check out our BRAND NEW SMS APP for Android and iPhone!

Prefer a bigger screen? Send/receive SMS Messages IN REAL TIME directly from the Message Center in the MyCallcentric Portal!

Need even more flexibility? We also offer SMS Forwarding to e-mail and mobile numbers!

Brand new and available for BOTH Android and iOS devices. Our SMS App has been fully redesigned and streamlined to provide the best SMS experience with your Callcentric account.

SMS Access Plans start at just $1 per month and we support messaging on all our US, Canada, and toll-free numbers.

Our new NA2500 Plan is a perfect match for busy SMBs, whether in the office or working from home. For just $29.95 per month you get E911, UNLIMITED outbound calls to toll-free numbers, and 2500 outbound minutes to the US/Canada.

Best of all, a single plan can be "shared" by over 50 different devices at no additional cost!

This FREE enhancement is now available to all E911 Subscribers by default! In the event you place a "911 Emergency Services" or "933 Address Verification" call, an email alert with the details of your call will be automatically sent to the addresses on-file for your account.

Due to popular demand, we are extending our FREE LNP Promotion for US, Canada, and Toll-Free Numbers!

If you have been considering porting your number(s) to our service, now is a GREAT TIME TO DO SO! Save on the one-time porting fees, enjoy our top notch quality, and try out some of our powerful new features like our IVR and Telemarketer Block.

This promotion is available for all of our Inbound Plans for US/Canada Numbers, including: Pay-Per Minute, Personal Unlimited, Office Unlimited, Toll-Free, and Service Provider Unlimited DIDs.

We now provide full support for Vanity Toll-Free Numbers and for a limited time we will search for the perfect number for you at no additional charge whatsoever. Vanity Toll-Free numbers are excellent for establishing/increasing brand recognition, making yourself or your company more accessible, and most importantly help you to stand out from the crowd.

To submit your Toll-Free Vanity Search request(s), please click this link. You can submit up to 5 numbers to be searched at a time and we will automatically check in ALL of the available Toll-Free prefixes to see if the number(s) you requested can be attained.

When you submit your request, a Trouble Ticket will be automatically opened and we will respond with our search results within 24 hours. If the number(s) you requested are available our Customer Support Team will work with you to place an order to attain them and most requests can be fulfilled within 1-3 business days.

Our Callcentric iPhone Click2Dial App has been entirely redesigned with a modern interface and an array of useful new features.

A great option for saving on international calls or avoiding high usage costs when traveling. With our Click2Dial Call Bridging App you can use your iOS Device to place calls anywhere in the world from your Callcentric Account. To learn more, click here.

Until the end of the month (6/13/18 until 6/30/18) we are WAIVING THE ONE-TIME SETUP FEES ON ALL NEW ORDERS for Personal Unlimited and Pay-Per Minute DIDs

Our Conference Room Feature is located in the Dashboard Page of the My Callcentric Portal and is available for ALL customers; regardless of whether you have a FREE or PAID Account. Designed with simplicity in mind, this feature gives you the ability to setup a high-capacity, feature rich conference room with just a single click!

New for 2018, we've added a Moderator Feature that gives the call organizer the ability to both track and mute/unmute participants in real time. Also, to ensure everyone has a chance to participate on the call, muted participants can "raise their hand" via touch tone key prompts to alert the moderator that they would like to speak.

Currently there is no limit to the amount of participants you can have on a single conference call and the Conference Number/PIN Combination that you generate will remain valid until you choose to delete it.

To learn more about our Conference Room Feature, please check our FAQ Section

Effective 1/18/17, we've dramatically reduced our inbound toll-free rates for calls from BOTH the US48 AND Canada.

Below is a summary of the recent reductions:

• TF Inbound from US48 - Reduced to 1.98 cents/minute (previous rate was 2.9 cents/min)
• TF Inbound from Canada - Reduced to 2.4 cents/minute (previous rate was 7.0 cents/min)

Our Spam Call Filter is a powerful tool designed to help you reduce/eliminate the amount of unwanted Telemarketer/Robocalls you receive. Here's how it works...

Every number that you receive an inbound call from will be assigned a Spam Probability Rating which will provide you with insight into the likelihood that the caller is a robocaller/telemarketer. These ratings are provided to us in real-time by TrueCNAM and are based on a combination of live traffic analysis, crowd sourced information, government data, and their proprietary algorithms.

Our Spam Call Filter will allow you to define how calls with a specific Spam Probability Rating are handled. For example, to reduce the likelihood that Telemarketers/Robocallers reach your phone you can route calls from numbers that have a "High" Spam Probability Rating to a destination such as Voicemail or a busy signal.

**Callcentric Tip: Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that every caller, who is calling from a number that has a Medium/High Spam Probability Rating, is a Telemarketer/Robocaller.

When you begin using this feature, we recommend that you configure your Spam Filter Call Treatment to route calls (with a Medium/High Spam Probability Rating) to our Voicemail or Telemarketer Block Features rather than outright blocking them (busy signal, error message, etc). Doing so will allow you to attain a better understanding of how specific incoming numbers are rated while still providing an opportunity for trusted/legitimate callers to reach you.

With our Telemarketer Block feature you can dramatically reduce and potentially eliminate unwanted telemarketing and robocalls.

When activated, inbound callers (to the DIDs that you have this feature activated on) will hear an automated message which will require them to press a specific key (1-9) in order to complete their call. Your Callcentric Phone WILL NOT begin to ring, until AFTER the inbound caller has successfully pressed the requisite key on their phone.

**Callcentric Tip: By configuring your friends, family, and colleagues' phone numbers into your Callcentric Phone Book and setting up a prioritized "Call Treatment" to route calls from these numbers directly to your phone, you can ensure that ONLY callers from unknown numbers will be prompted to press the requisite key (1-9) in order to complete their call.

Looking for a low cost calling plan that's high in value? For just $1.95 per month our new North America Basic Calling Plan comes with E911, 120 minutes for outbound calls to the US/Canada/Puerto Rico, unlimited calling to Toll-Free Numbers, CNAM, and full support for ALL of our advanced features.

Our NA Basic Plan is perfect for light users, phone number park/forward configurations, customers who have only been using our service for inbound calling and/or E911, or anyone who is looking for a feature rich alternative to Google Voice that also includes top-notch support.

Best of all our new NA Basic Plan can be used with any of the most popular SIP Compatible Platforms that are currently available and like all of our plans it can be ordered on a month to month basis without any long term commitment!

To add even more value to our popular North America 500 and North America 1000 Calling Plans we've added Unlimited Outbound Toll-Free Calling. Starting today (09/09/2015), calls placed to North America Based Toll-Free Numbers will no longer count against your included minute pool.

Our North America 500/1000 plans come included with E911, provide discounts on our standard outbound per minute rates, and are sold exclusively on a month to month basis.

If you have been using a competing provider for outbound toll-free calls or if you have been thinking about upgrading your existing Pay-Per Call Plan; try our NA 500/1000 Outbound Calling Plans and see firsthand why customers have rated us as one of the best overall values in the industry for the past 8+ years.

Personalized call handling minus the complexities of managing your own PBX! By configuring an IVR on your account, inbound callers will be connected to a Main Menu Message which will provide them with options to have their calls routed to specific destinations based on DTMF Key Prompts that they enter (i.e - "Press 1" for Sales, "Press 2" for Support, "Press 3" to ring my Cell Phone, etc...)

Simple, yet powerful; you can configure your Callcentric IVR in a matter of minutes and advanced business features including Call Queuing, Live Call Transfers, and Music on Hold are all supported in conjunction with this feature.

To help get you started we provide Professional Quality Generic Recordings that you can use regardless if you have a Free or Paid Callcentric Account. Additionally, customers with Paid Accounts have the option to upload their own custom audio files in either the ".mp3" or ".wav" formats.

To enhance our popular IVR (Automated Attendant) Feature we've added a new "Failover Route" option to give you even more control over how your inbound calls are handled.

When configured, calls which are unable to connect to their intended destination can be sent to Voicemail, a secondary IVR, our Calling Card Service, or they can be disconnected.

The Failover Route is particularly useful for customers who need to configure unique voice mailboxes on a per destination basis.

Doing a large scale installation and want the convenience of managing all of your devices from a single account? No problem! You can now manage up to 51 Extensions (Sub-Accounts) from a single account.

As always, Sub-Accounts can be provisioned in real-time via the My Callcentric portal and there are no extra charges/fees whatsoever to add devices to your account.

Our Maximum Call Rate feature provides you the ability to set a specific per minute rate cap for all calls placed from your account. Once this feature has been activated, any call placed to a destination that has a higher per minute rate than the one which you defined will be blocked.

*We strongly recommend activating our Maximum Call Rate feature in conjunction with our Allowed Calling Areas feature. In doing so, you will be able to define both the countries/regions as well as the highest per minute rate that your account is allowed to place calls to.

To complement our "IP Whitelist" and "Allowed Calling Areas" security features we have now added a Two-Point Authentication system to help protect your account against unauthorized web login access.

In addition to your standard login password, you can now choose to configure Challenge Questions or for even better protection activate our Security Key Authentication System.

These additional security features are available for ALL of our customers and can be configured in a matter of minutes directly from the "Preferences" section of the MyCallcentric Account Portal.

Add a professional touch to your existing configuration by uploading your own custom Voicemail Messages in either the ".mp3" or ".wav" formats directly via the My Callcentric Account Portal. This feature is available exclusively for customers with Paid Accounts and is a great compliment to our brand-new Callcentric IVR.

We now offer high-quality, international DIDs in OVER 50 countries! Ukraine, Turkey, and Malaysia DIDs are a great, low-cost way to stay in contact with your friends, family, business associates, etc...

To streamline the user experience, we have made some small updates to the MyCallcentric Portal that we really think you will like. For example, to make our Telemarketer Block and other Call Filtering Features even easier to configure, we've added a "Phone Book" icon to your Calls Made/Received lists to indicate whether a number is in your Callcentric Phone Book for filtering/accessibility purposes.

Also, to help you get and stay up and running we've augmented our support documentation by adding more user Help Files, FAQ Entries, and Device Configuration Guides.

For customers using our US/Canada DIDs we now have the ability to recover and send you partially received faxes. Oftentimes these messages are "partially received due to a multitude of issues that can occur from the sending side and with our new enhancements we can now automatically "recover" these incomplete faxes so that you can review what was received.

Additionally, we have also added new customer e-mail notifications and we can now update you if a caller to your fax number does not send any fax at all. In these notifications we always include the number of the caller (when available) so if needed you can contact them and ask them to re-send.

As per customer request we have expanded our popular Dirt Cheap DID product to now include DIDs in over 100 rate centers in Canada; including ALL major cities and the Northern Territories. Please note that inventory for this product is limited to our current overstock and once our inventory in a particular rate center has been exhausted we will not be offering the Dirt Cheap DID product there any longer.

We now offer both new and vanity numbers in the recently released 844 Toll-Free Prefix. Additionally, we now also provide International DIDs in both the Dominican Republic and Malta to increase our International Coverage to OVER 47 Countries!

As a thank you to all of our valued customers, effective immediately we have lowered our Inbound Toll-Free Rate for calls from Canadian Numbers by over 25% to 0.07 cents/minute.

To present a more uniform and polished feel to our service we have had all of our service messages professionally re-recorded (voicemail, calling card, error messages, Caller ID Verification line, etc).

With our Telemarketer Block feature you can dramatically reduce and potentially eliminate unwanted telemarketing and robocalls.

When activated, inbound callers (to the DIDs that you have this feature activated on) will hear an automated message which will require them to press a specific key (1-9) in order to complete their call. Your Callcentric Phone WILL NOT begin to ring, until AFTER the inbound caller has successfully pressed the requisite key on their phone.

**Callcentric Tip: By configuring your friends, family, and colleagues' phone numbers into your Callcentric Phone Book and setting up a prioritized "Call Treatment" to route calls from these numbers directly to your phone, you can ensure that ONLY callers from unknown numbers will be prompted to press the requisite key (1-9) in order to complete their call.

We now provide full support for Vanity Toll-Free Numbers and for a limited time we will search for the perfect number for you at no additional charge whatsoever. Vanity Toll-Free numbers are excellent for establishing/increasing brand recognition, making yourself or your company more accessible, and most importantly help you to stand out from the crowd.

To submit your Toll-Free Vanity Search request(s) please click this link or go to our "Receive Calls" page (link is in our main menu) and click on the "Request Vanity Lookup" link which is located under the "Toll Free" product category. You can submit up to 5 numbers to be searched per query, and we will automatically check in ALL of the available Toll-Free prefixes to see if the number(s) you request can be attained.

When you submit your request, a Trouble Ticket will be automatically opened and we will respond with our search results within 24 hours. If the number(s) you requested are available our Customer Support Team will work with you to place an order to attain them and most requests can be fulfilled within 1-3 business days.

We now support the provisioning of multiple voice mailboxes to a single account on a per extension basis. There are no additional charges/fees to have multiple voice mailboxes on your account and for account management purposes we provide you the flexibility to:

• Share the same voicemail settings across multiple mailboxes (Global Settings)
• Configure unique voicemail settings on a per mailbox basis (Local/Custom Settings)
• Have All/Some of your Extensions share your account's Default Voice Mailbox (Extension 100)

Incoming Voicemail messages can now be forwarded to up to 3 Unique E-mail Addresses. This functionality is available BOTH for accounts that only have a single voice mailbox and also for accounts that have multiple voice mailboxes.

For accounts with multiple voice mailboxes, by using our Local/Custom settings you can setup voicemail to e-mail forwarding for UP TO 3 unique e-mail addresses for EACH Extension.

For accounts with Multiple Extensions and Multiple Voice Mailboxes we have added the ability to "copy" your voicemail messages from one voice mailbox to another (on the same Callcentric account) either via dial-in prompt commands or through the My Callcentric Account Portal.

We now provide the option to configure our Fax Reception Service to forward your inbound faxes to a unique e-mail address on a per DID basis (Custom Settings) or to have some/all of your DIDs configured to forward your inbound faxes to the primary e-mail address(es) that are on-file for your account (Global Settings).

We have significantly increased our Canadian Footprint for both porting and ordering new Numbers. We now provide DIDs in all of the provinces and territories in Canada.

To review our expanded coverage in Canada, please click here

Have multiple devices? No Problem! With "Callcentric Extensions" you can provision additional Sub-Accounts to your existing/new account! Sub-Accounts can be added in real-time via the My Callcentric portal and there are no extra charges/fees whatsoever to add devices to your account.

The My Callcentric Portal has been re-designed to simplify/enhance the user experience and also to lay the framework for some exciting new features to be added in the coming months. Some of the highlights of the updated My Callcentric Portal include:

Flexible and secure. Our new portal allows you to provision Sub-Accounts in real-time and you can set important account security features that are global for the entire account or device specific

Revamped and ready for action. The Account Dashboard page has been re-designed so you can log in, immediately review important account settings, and complete some of the most frequently performed account actions in just a click or two

Easy to manage. You can assign friendly/memorable to each of your extensions (sub-accounts), assign specific names for internal Extension to Extension calling, and can see the exact Hardware/Software that is registered to each Extension in real-time

Pestered by telemarketers? Friend call you from a new number and want to add it to your phone book? You can now quickly create Call Treatments directly from the last calls made/received list on your main Dashboard page

For customers who have multiple DIDs on a single account; we have added a CNAM Update Tool to the My Callcentric Portal which will allow you to submit custom CNAM Updates on a per DID basis. This feature is available for any of our traditional DIDs from North America and is completely FREE to use!

New DIDs are now available throughout the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Anchorage DIDs (907) are now available under a variety of our inbound products (Pay-Per Minute, Personal Unlimited, Office Unlimited, and Service Provider Unlimited).

Our "Caller ID Pass-Through" feature allows you to maintain the original caller's identity when forwarding an inbound call that you had received from them back to the PSTN.

This feature is especially useful for customers who are looking to send outbound calls utilizing a specific CallerID from their system and want to do so "on-the-fly" void of our traditional Caller ID verification process.

Customer Advisory: Please note that this feature is ONLY AVAILABLE for customers using a SIP PBX that either supports (or allows the configuring of) the "in-reply-to" header (defined by RFC 3261) for incoming calls which are forwarded to an outbound trunk. In these instances Callcentric will "Pass-Through" the CallerID from the original call which was received to the outbound bridged/forwarded call.

To enhance the Customer Service experience, an alert center has been created within the My Callcentric Account Portal that dynamically relays important account related information. Current Account Center Alerts include LNP Status Updates, Fraudulent Activity Alerts, Billing Related Concerns, and Trouble Ticket Update Notifications. We will be adding more notifications to the Alert Center in the coming weeks/months.

Our new IP Whitelist Feature adds an additional layer of security/protection for customers connecting to our service over a Static IP Connection. When activated, the IP Whitelist feature will immediately invalidate any existing registrations and ONLY the specific IP Addresses that you define via the MYCallcentric Account Portal will be allowed to register to your account.

The IP Whitelist Feature can be activated/adjusted from within the MYCallcentric Account Portal by going to the "Preferences" page and clicking on the "Security" tab.

A previously existing issue which caused certain 3-way calls and calls placed on hold (to/from PSTN) to drop or receive one-way audio has been fixed. Customers who use three-way calling should not experience any further problems.

We're happy to introduce two new rate plans, North America 500 and North America 1000. North America 500 includes 500 monthly minutes of calling to the USA (US Domestic, Alaska and Hawaii), Canada, and Puerto Rico and includes 911 service for US and Canadian customers all in the $6.95 monthly price. North America 1000 includes all the same features as North America 500, but with 1,000 minutes of calling for $12.95 per month. You can save up to 40% by choosing either of these rate plans. Both rate plans also include the new feature listed below: Multiple calls placed under monthly rate plans all included within rate plan. If you go over the included monthly minutes or call outside the included calling areas, you'll be charged per-minute based on our low Pay Per Call rates.

We've made some changes to 2 of our rate plans. North America Unlimited is now known as North America Residential, and World Select is now known as World Select Residential. Both rate plans now include 911 service within the price for US / Canada customers, reducing the effective price by $1.50 monthly for US / Canada customers. Both plans are now restricted only to customers located in North America. Existing customers with these rate plans who are located outside North America may continue using these plans indefinitely. All customers already using either of these rate plans have been moved from the old plan to the respective new plan. Both rate plans also include the new feature listed below: Multiple calls placed under monthly rate plans all included within rate plan.

You can now setup Call Treatments to match short caller ID's, for example a caller ID that just comes in as "1", which customers frequently see for telemarketers based outside the USA for example. Previously caller ID matching was limited to a minimum of 7 digits.
We still recommend you use a minimum of 7 digits to match caller ID's in general, and use short caller ID matching only for very specific cases.

We've re-designed our public website to be more modern, easier to understand / navigate for new customers, and have a similar look and feel in areas that were in the past different.

When accessing your Callcentric voicemail box by phone, all voicemail prompts have been changed to a single persons voice.

Customers who wanted their account to send a caller ID of a number not purchased from Callcentric (an external caller ID) previously had two options:

A. Use an IP PBX with "P-ASSERTED-IDENTITY" or "REMOTE-PARTY-ID" to pass a verified caller ID as explained here.
B. Callcentric support could "force" all outbound calls on the account to pass one (1) verified caller ID all the time.

We have now added the ability to select a verified caller ID under "Caller ID to send:" in your account preferences.

PLEASE NOTE: If you had previously had your external caller ID verified and "forced" on your account, you may now open a trouble ticket on your account requesting that the forced number be selectable in your preferences rather than always forced.

An option has been added to the voicemail preferences which allows customers to disable the prompt: "When you have finished recording your message you may hangup or press # for more options." from being played after a voicemail greeting.

We have increased the storage time for voicemail messages from 60 to 90 days on paid accounts.

Callers that reach your voicemail may press the pound ( # ) sign on their phone to skip your voicemail greeting and immediately leave a message. As always, you may push the asterisk ( * ) sign on your phone and then enter your PIN followed by the pound ( # ) sign to access your voicemail box during the greeting.

The Callcentric Android app allows you to use your Android phone to place calls worldwide from your Callcentric account, and save significant money over cellular carrier calling rates. This is particularly useful to customers who want to save money on international calls, or want the caller ID of their Callcentric account to show up on outbound calls they place instead of their Android phone number. For details please click here.

You can now setup Call Treatments to have incoming calls simultaneously ring up to 3 phones with failover to voicemail. For example you could have inbound calls simultaneously ring your Callcentric phone, office phone, and cell phone with failover to your Callcentric voicemail. Options are available to control how long to ring each number, whether the call should be considered as answered immediately or only after pressing "1" on the receiving phone, along with how the call should be handled if there is no answer at any of the numbers. Please see the HELP icons within Call Treatments for a detailed description of this feature.

You can now setup Call Treatments to have incoming calls hunt between up to 3 phones with failover to voicemail. For example you could have your Callcentric phone ring for a specified time, then your office phone, and then your cell phone with failover to your Callcentric voicemail. Options are available to control how long to ring each number, whether the call should be considered as answered immediately or only after pressing "1" on the receiving phone, along with how the call should be handled if there is no answer at any of the numbers. Please see the HELP icons within Call Treatments for a detailed description of this feature.

You can now configure contacts within your Callcentric Phone Book to be within a group. For example you might create a group named "Family" which includes all members of your family. Phone Book groups can be used to control Call Treatments as described in the next feature. Please see the HELP icons within the Phone Book for a detailed description of this feature.

Previously using Call Treatments you could only match 1 specific caller ID per Call Treatment. Using the new Phone Book Groups feature, you can now configure a Call Treatment to match based on a Phone Book group. For example, if you've created a Phone Book group "Family" you could select that a Call Treatment match all caller ID's you've listed in your Phone Book under the group "Family". This allows you to apply 1 Call Treatment rule to a group of people rather than creating several individual Call Treatments for each caller ID you want to match. Please see the HELP icons within Call Treatments for a detailed description of this feature.

This feature fixes a long-standing issue with call hold and call-waiting with many Sipura / Linksys / Cisco devices such as the PAP2, PAP2T, and SPA-xxxx series devices. This feature resolves a problem with calls either being disconnected or losing audio, immediately or a few minutes after using hold / call-waiting. This problem was related to how these devices signaled a call hold / call-waiting event. Calls should no longer drop after a hold / call-waiting switch on these devices.

We have improved the "Allow Calls" feature within Preferences. Previously you could only select to allow calls to "Everywhere" or just "North America." You can now choose geographic regions of the world and/or specific countries you wish to allow calls to be completed to. For example if you never or rarely call anywhere in Africa you can choose to disable calls to all of Africa. When calling a region/country that has not been allowed you will be directed to an error message stating calls are not enabled to this area. This can be used as a cost control, and we especially recommend customers using IP PBX's (such as Asterisk, 3CX, etc) only enable areas/countries you actually call as a fraud control (please see our security guide for more details on this issue). Please see the HELP icon within the "Allow Calls" feature of the Preferences for a detailed description of this feature.

Previously dialing a * when on a Calling Card call allowed you to hangup the active call and dial a new one. As the * was interfering with access to some automated system we have changed this to be # # # - the # key dialed 3 times quickly. Now when using the Calling Card feature please dial the pound key 3 times quickly to disconnect the active call and start another.

We have added a feature which when enabled will play the balance on your Callcentric account when accessing the Calling Card feature by phone. This feature can be configured on the Calling Card settings page.

International DID's (phone numbers) are now available in Hong Kong, Panama, Portugal, and South Africa. New numbers in these countries can be ordered on this page.

We've added a Calling Card access numbers in Israel. The access numbers can be seen here.

Previously all voicemail messages were limited to a maximum of 2 minutes recording time. All voicemail messages may now be as long as 4 minutes.

Previously you could only view Call History for the past 3 months. You may now view calls placed and received on your account in the Call History report for the last 18 months.

Your Call History report is available here.

Previously Account Statements were provided as an HTML web page only. We are now providing Accounts Statements in both HTML and Adobe PDF format. The Account Statement for May 2010 is provided in both HTML and PDF formats, and going forward we will be providing all Account Statements as both HTML and Adobe PDF files. Statements prior to May 2010 are available in the HTML format only.

Account Statements can be viewed here.

Previously you could only view the last 3 months of Account Statements on your account. Account statements from May 2010 back to March 2009 are now available on your account. Going forward we will be providing the last 18 months of Account Statements within your account. Please note that going forward when you do not have any billing or calling activity on your account during a month - no statement will be generated for that month, and the text "(No activity)" will be placed next to the month.

Account Statements can be viewed here.

Previously all calls to/from your Callcentric account were limited to a maximum of 2 hours. The maximum call duration is now configurable from between 30 minutes and 480 minutes (8 hours) in the Preferences page on your account. Unless you regularly make calls greater than 2 hours we suggest leaving the maximum call duration limit set to the default of 2 hours.

Please note that this setting will only specify the maximum call duration, but if your rate plan or phone number is billed on a per-minute basis you still must have enough funds in your account balance to cover the cost of the call.

Please also note that many international carriers we hand off calls to (particularly for calls outside the USA and Canada) restrict maximum call durations to values that are lower than you may configure. For example many international carriers will disconnect a call at 120, 180, or 240 minutes (2, 3, and 4 hours respectively).

We've added the ability to listen to new and saved voicemail messages within your browser instead of downloading a message to your computer first. This feature requires Adobe Flash to be installed on the computer you are using to listen to voicemail messages. Voicemail messages may be viewed on your account here.

We've recently made changes that improve the quality of voicemail messages played in the browser, downloaded to your computer, or emailed to you as attachments. The changes generally improve quality and clarity of voicemail messages left on your account.

911 Service is now available in Canada. As per Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulations Callcentric must provide 911 service to all customers located in Canada that purchase rate plans and/or phone numbers from us.

911 Service may be activated on your account by visiting the My Callcentric Dashboard.
Please see our 911 Service Description page and our 911 FAQ's for important information on our 911 services.

A 911 Service Fee of $1.50 setup and $1.50 per month is charged to all customers in the USA and Canada purchasing a rate plan and/or phone numbers.

You can now import and export phone book and speed dial entries to your account. Phone Book entries may also be used to replace incoming Caller ID, such as replacing "Jane Smith" with "Mom" for example. See the Phone Book page on your Callcentric account for details.

Numbers in Tbilisi Georgia are now available for $6.95 Setup, $8.95 Monthly which is reduced from the original price of $12.95 Setup, $15.95 Monthly. Tbilisi numbers can be ordered here.

Now you may use wildcards along with explicit numbers to match caller ID information in a Call Treatment. For example you can now setup a Call Treatment to send all calls with caller ID "1800*" to voicemail. Both * and x are supported with different functionality. Please see the help icons within Call Treatments for additional details.

You may now setup a Call Treatment to forward matching calls to your phone. This option is useful for "whitelisting" specific numbers or ranges of numbers (using the wildcard feature). For example you might have setup Call Treatments to send all inbound calls to voice mail at specific times of the day, by adding additional Call Treatments you could force calls from family members to ring through to your phone even during these times. Please see the help icons within Call Treatments for additional details.

Caller ID with Name (CNAM) on incoming calls has been one of the most requested features over the years. We've struggled for many years trying to find the right partner to add CNAM to our service, which would allow us to offer the service as we wanted under contractual terms, and at the right price. We're happy to announce that CNAM is now available for all Callcentric customers on any paid phone number for FREE!

CNAM information including the callers name (when available) will be presented on incoming calls. When the caller name is unavailable, the city and state will normally be listed. CNAM information is available for incoming calls that contain a Caller ID Number from the United States and Canada. CNAM information is presented in the following locations:

• Inbound calls to your phone
• In your Calls Received list on the My Callcentric Dashboard
• In your Call History reports within My Callcentric
• In your Voicemail messages box on the My Callcentric Dashboard; and in Voicemail email and text alerts
• In your Fax received box on the My Callcentric dashboard; and in Fax email alerts.

CNAM is available to all Callcentric customers for any paid phone numbers on your account; including all of our phone number products:

• Pay Per Minute
• Dirt Cheap DID
• Toll Free
• Personal Unlimited
• Office Unlimited
• Service Provider Unlimited
• International Unlimited

As always, should you enter a phone number and name in your Phone Book; the name listed in the Phone Book will over-write the CNAM data. So for example if CNAM is displaying "Jane Smith" for the number 1-212-555-0100; if you enter this number into your Phone Book with the name "Mom", "Mom" will appear as the Caller ID Name for incoming calls from 1-212-555-0100.

To Enable Caller ID with Name (CNAM) on your account please:

1. Go to the Preferences page on your account
2. Click the EDIT link next to the option "Caller ID with Name:"
3. Select the ENABLE option
4. Click the SAVE button

This feature primarily applies to business customers and customers running their own IP PBX system. Using this feature you may include the Caller ID number to send on your outbound call within the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) INVITE call setup message. You may pass Caller ID numbers for DID's already on your Callcentric account; and you may also pass a Caller ID number for number(s) that do not belong to your Callcentric account (such as a cell phone) once you have verified those numbers with us.

This feature is useful if you have many extensions behind an IP PBX and wish to pass unique caller ID (such as the DID) for each extension. It is only available for sending Caller ID of numbers in Country Code 1 which includes the USA, Canada, and some other countries primarily in the Caribbean.

We've long offered the ability to have a number that is not attached to your Callcentric account sent as the Caller ID on outbound calls from your account after the number has been verified. We are now adding the ability to pass the Caller ID you would like to send within the SIP INVITE message that establishes an outbound call.

This is accomplished by:

1. If you want to pass a Caller ID number of a DID already on your Callcentric account, you may simply send it as described in point D below.
   
   
2. If you want to pass a Caller ID number of a number NOT on your Callcentric account - Get your number(s) verified. From each of the lines/numbers you would like to use as outbound Caller ID, get them verified by calling from each of them: 1-866-346-0222 and you will hear an error message, then hang-up.
   
   
3. Open a Trouble Ticket on your Callcentric account asking to get your number(s) verified.
   
   Include with in the Trouble Ticket the numbers you would like verified on your account, and the approximate date, time, and time zone you placed the verification calls to the Toll Free number listed above. Once we verify we received your calls we will add these numbers as verified numbers on your account and update your ticket.
   
   
4. Send the Caller ID number of a DID on your account or an already verified number within the SIP INVITE message of an outbound call. To do so, have your IP PBX attach any of the following headers which are supported by most IP PBX's (check your vendor's documentation for support) to your outbound calls:
   P-ASSERTED-IDENTITY
   P-PREFERRED-IDENTITY
   REMOTE-PARTY-ID
   

When we receive an outbound call from your IP PBX with any of the above headers, and that header includes a Caller ID number that is a DID on your account OR has been verified on your account we will pass that as the outbound caller ID for that call; over-riding any settings on your Callcentric account preferences.

New phone numbers in Canada can now be purchased in 45 additional ratecenters (cities) within Canada under the following products:

• Pay Per Minute
• Personal Unlimited
• Office Unlimited
• Service Provider Unlimited

To view our phone number coverage and purchase a new number please visit this page: DID Coverage

Coverage for porting existing phone numbers in Canada to Callcentric is now available in over 160 additional ratecenters (cities) within Canada under the following products:

• Pay Per Minute
• Personal Unlimited
• Office Unlimited
• Service Provider Unlimited

To verify if your number is portable to Callcentric please visit this page: LNP Check

You can now receive up to 100 messages, each up to 2 minutes long, in your Voicemail box on your Callcentric account. Please see our FAQ's for Voicemail retention times.

We have made a modification to our fax reception feature to reduce the number of blank faxes received. Frequently when a number that had our fax reception feature enabled received a wrong-number call (such as a hang-up), a blank fax would be created. Blank faxes from hang-ups should no longer occur.

We've added a new Call Treatment option to send calls matching the Call Treatment to an error message stating the number is not in service.

When you setup a Call Treatment to match a specific Caller ID of a Telemarketer for example, and set the Redirect call to option as "Error message: Number disconnected"; we will play a SIT (Special Information Tone) indicating the number has been disconnected, as well as an error message that the number dialed has been disconnected. SIT tones are detected by some auto-dialers used by Telemarketers to determine when a number is disconnected.

When callers are connected to this new Error Message the call is not answered, and your account (if using a Per-Minute priced DID) nor the caller will be charged for the call.

You can now filter your Call History Report with additional options including:

• Show only paid/charged calls
• Show All Calls, or only Inbound or Outbound calls
• Show inbound calls received on specific number (DID)