[asterisk-users] What is billsec in CDR?

[adamk at 3a.hu]

On 05-05-2010 18:00, Jian Gao wrote:
> In my system (Asterisk 1.4.30) I found that if I have some playback() or
> saydigit() before dial(), the billsec in CDR count all the time includes
> the playback time. For example, if I dial a number, listen the playback,
> then just hangup before the call get answered, the CDR show me the time
> spent doing the playback in the billsec.
>


apps like playback do an implicit answer and this fires up the billsec 
counter.