[asterisk-users] Play dial tone withou answer

Arjan Kroon Arjan.Kroon at mobillion.nl
Fri Jun 22 01:22:31 CDT 2007


Yes Dave,

We want to use to principle for the following reason.
If the outbound call is not picked up, the inbound caller won't be
charged for the call, because there was no answer.

Arjan

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of David Boyd
Sent: dinsdag 19 juni 2007 17:03
To: Lee Jenkins
Cc: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Play dial tone withou answer

Yes Lee, he could, however he doesn't want to answer the call until the
call has been completed on the outbound leg.

Dave

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:26 -0400, Lee Jenkins wrote:
> David Boyd wrote:
> > Two points,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > first (I believe from many previous threads, and viewing source code
> > ) you must answer a call to place audio on the channel.
> > 
> > second, depending on the type of access being used by the originator
of
> > the call, the carrier will not pass audio on the channel back to the
> > originator unless they receive an answer indication from asterisk,
so
> > even if you could place audio on the channel without an answer,
there is
> > no guarantee still it would  propagate back to the originator of the
> > call.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Can't he just setup an extension to Answer() the call, play message or

> Ringing() and then transfer the call?
> 


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