[asterisk-users] howto store local exchange prefixes ?

[Jonathan Thurman]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:58 PM, John Novack
<jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>wrote:

>
>
> sean darcy wrote:
> > The local telco is now going 10 digit dialing even for local (free)
> > calls which used to be 7 digit. For a while no problem, everyone will
> > continue to dial 7 digits, and I'll add the area code. But pretty soon
> > everyone will become used to 10 digits.
> >
> >
> Lucky you.
> Other states require 11 digits for all calls, regardless, and yet others
> require 10 digit for local and 11 digit for toll, they way the NANP was
> SUPPOSED to evolve, until the inmates took over the asylum and each
> state ( in the US ) PUC sets the numbering plan and splits vs overlays.
>
> John Novack
>

> > There are about 40 3 digit local exchanges. I'd like to store the
> > exchanges in a database, and use the dialplan to check them. I can
> > figure that out.
> >
>

Very lucky, we have 700 prefixes to check that are 10 digits on one some our
trunks and 11 on others, and some that don't care either way!

Right now I have a script that parses the prefixes and creates the dial plan
in an #include file.  Since the prefixes don't change the frequently, it
seems to work.  Assume that everything is 11 digits, then using a dialing
macro, find an open trunk and strip the '1' if needed.  Now my users never
have to dial a 11, but it works if they do.

I would welcome some ideas for a more elegant solution!

So if cell phones never require 11 digits...

The company line about NANP and consistancy:
*"We don't care.**We don't have to.**We're the phone company."*-Jonathan
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