[asterisk-users] Asterisk's DANGEROUS Transfer CDR's

[Matt]

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> Hi Matt,
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> Sadly I understand all to well how transfers work. I've had to go over and
> over this for the last 12 months trying to find different ways of handling
> it. I'm talking about blind and attended call transfers here not IAX or any
> other kind. We are not taking Asterisk out of the media path and even if we
> were you wouldn't want to be losing CDR's from a provider's point of view,
> whoever set the call up is still paying for it regardless of where the media
> has been re-invited to.
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> Out of the 8 Asterisk based providers I have tested 3 have this issue and
> the other 5 don't support transfers.
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> It's dead simple for anyone to test. Find an Asterisk provider that
> supports transfers, connect with the xten, do a blind or attended transfer
> and check the CDR's. Call a free or cheap destination as the first leg of
> your transfer and the expensive destination second. You'll be pleasantly
> suprised at the bill!
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> Regards,
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> Greyman.
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Grey... I'm not debating that this is how it works.   We provide wholesale
VoIP and retail VoIP.   Transfers are disabled on both of those.  That was
one of the first things we did... all media and calls stay in our system.
If the company doesn't have transfers disabled, that is their own fault, and
their loss.  I know exactly what you are referring to, and technically I'd
say Asterisk is still correct, because the leg of the call that billing was
happening on (the sip client) is no longer there.
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