[asterisk-users] How to handle "+" prefix

Steve Kennedy steve-asterisk at gbnet.net
Fri Aug 31 12:49:45 CDT 2007


On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:03:07AM -0600, Kai-Uwe Jensen wrote:

> On 8/31/07, Anthony Francis <anthonyf at rockynet.com> wrote:
> >  Mindfully wanting to use a + instead of knowing the international access code seems like willful ignorance to me.
> I beg to differ. Consider cell phones as an example. They all provide
> + keys. And it is considered a best practice to store phone numbers in
> address books as "+ country_code area_code number" so that you can
> change locations (ever traveled to Europe?) easily, without having to
> reprogram all your contacts' numbers.

Also all SMS are sent in GSM international format (i.e. all prefixed
with +CC).


Steve

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