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

[Steve Totaro]

Don't hangup just don't answer either.  You could probably just start
at [callback], what does the other context do?

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Zeeshan Zakaria <zishanov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
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