[asterisk-users] How to hangup a channel immediately so that it doesn't get charged on cell phone

[Zeeshan Zakaria]

Thanks for your reply. Yes, it came from another context where it was first
answered. I put there s,1,Hangup and then ran other priorities. I hope this
will fix my problem, but not sure yet.

Zeeshan

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Tony Mountifield
<tony at softins.clara.co.uk>wrote:

> In article <5ad99e890809221758r108a29b5wf688dfe7e832bc5b at mail.gmail.com>,
> Zeeshan Zakaria <zishanov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On my call back system, I have the  script as follows:
> >
> > [calback]
> > exten => s,1,NoOp(* STARTING CALLCHEAP\'S CALLBACK SYSTEM *)
> > exten => s,n,Set(CALL=${CALLERID(number)})
> > exten => s,n,Set(DESTINATION=myCallback.2000.1)
> > exten => s,n,Set(SLEEP=5)
> > exten => s,n,System(/var/lib/asterisk/bin/callback ${CALL} ${DESTINATION}
> > ${SLEEP} &)
> > exten => s,n,Hangup
> >
> > The idea behind this system is that the script picks up the call, notes
> down
> > the caller's number, and hangs it immediately. Then the caller gets a
> call
> > back.
> >
> > But what is happening is that cell phone callers are still being charged
> for
> > calling into this callback context.
> >
> > How can I avoid this? I want cell phone users to not get charged for the
> > call back.
>
> How does the incoming call get to calback,s,1 ? Is there another part of
> the dialplan that receives the call and then jumps to here? If so, you
> need to make sure that it doesn't call Answer(), nor any application that
> might do an implicit answer.
>
> Otherwise, please give more details about how the calls are delivered to
> your system, and what you do with them right from the beginning.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
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Zeeshan A Zakaria
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