[Asterisk-Users] Music instead of Tunes

[Steve Hanselman]

Thinking about it we may well be able to do this in the UK as one of the
complaints I get about Asterisk is that our ring tone has changed to
external callers, (the zone is set correctly for zaptel, but it's different
from the normal ring tone), so the tones must be coming from the TE405, not
just generated as a result of the accept (unless some data in the accept
signifies the tones to generate?)



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Crick [mailto:web-asterisk-users at ivrl.com] 
Sent: 29 December 2004 18:32
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Music instead of Tunes

> So we could provide caller position announcements
> without the callers actually incurring charges?
> Has anybody tried this (in the UK)?
Maybe.. but probably not..

In the UK (and most European countries), the ACCEPT message triggers
generation of ringback tone at the calling party's exchange (central
office). This is as opposed to the North American way of doing things where
the ACCEPT message opens up a one way speech path from the called party to
the calling party (originally for providing inband call progress tones I
believe). Also, there's a timer on how long you can be in that state
without issuing an ANSWER and thus tripping answer supervision/billing
commencement.

I think technically it IS possible to get UK kit to work in the US fashion,
but you have to talk to a switch tech that knows what he's doing, and of
course you may get bitten with the "Yeah, it's doable, but we don't have
that software feature pack installed on our switch" line.

Paul

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