[asterisk-users] Dial-Chain interrupted by Operator "Called Party not reachable" Messages

[John covici]

Well, I would put in logic so the person has to confirm by hitting 1
or something and otherwise no matter what the phone company does, you
will know.  We have the same problem here and this is the only thing I
can think of to fix it.

on Friday 10/05/2007 Christoph Adomeit(Christoph.Adomeit at gatworks.de) wrote
 > Hi Eric,
 > 
 > thanks for your hint.
 > 
 > Unfortunately it doesn't work, I just tested it. It seems
 > that at least in german T-D1 Mobile Network a mobile call
 > is "answered" even if that mobile is switched off.
 > 
 > 
 > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:30:11PM -0500, Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote:
 > > Christoph Adomeit wrote:
 > > > Hi,
 > > > 
 > > > I have the following problem: I want asterisk to dial
 > > > a chain of n-numbers until somebody picks up the line.
 > > > I am using Digium E1 Hardware (zaptel) for dialing out.
 > > > 
 > > > Dialing a Chain is basically no problem, I use somwthing like:
 > > > dial(no1,50)
 > > > dial(no2,50)
 > > > dial(no3,50)
 > > > 
 > > > However, If no1 is not reachable, for example it is a mobile
 > > > and switched off, then some automatic Operator-Voice from the
 > > > Mobile-Telco says forever: 
 > > > "This number is currently not reachable" and this means asterisk
 > > > thinks the call was succesfull and does not continue with the 
 > > > the other numbers.
 > > > 
 > > > Does somebody has an idea how I can distinguish those "Operator
 > > > Voices" from real calls ?
 > > 
 > > This is one of the VERY few times the "r" option to Dial will be helpful.
 > > 
 > > Dial(no1,50,r)  etc.
 > > 
 > > As long as the call is not answered (and the telco does not answer when 
 > > they play that message) the "r" option will hide the audio the telco is 
 > > sending.
 > > 
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