[asterisk-users] Using the PBX Directory from a Blackberry

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:53:18AM -0500, JR Richardson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> A couple of customers called complaining that folks were dialing into
> their PBX trying to use the Directory to locate users, from a
> Blackberry, and getting frustrated due to the incompatibility of
> dialing alpha characters on the the qwerty keyboard and not getting
> through.
> 
> The issue of course is the Directory application only recognizes
> numeric digit tones, not alpha characters (not sure is there is
> actually tones generated when the alpha characters are pressed, it
> just doesn't work).
> 
> Anyhow, on the Blackberry, when you hold down the Alt key and press
> the alpha character, the device sends out the correct digit tone
> associated with that character, like on a regular phone keypad.

Is it a tone?

Or the letter itself in SIP / RTP signalling?

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