[asterisk-users] Not Dialing 9

[Paul Hales]

> This has worked fine for me (as far as I know).  Is there some flaw I
> am not seeing?  I see a lot of small businesses that require a 9 to
> dial out, even though they don't have very many extensions.  Couldn't
> they do what I did and not have to dial 9?
>   

Many older systems _cannot_ process the call based on what is dialled
(in Asterisk this is called 'pattern matching') - so the first digit
(ie: 9) tells the phone system that the user is about to dial an outside
number.

PaulH