[asterisk-biz] Calling Card Hybrid

[Alistair Cunningham]

Craig,

Enswitch supports all of these requirements.

Alistair Cunningham
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+44 20 799 39 799
sip:acunningham at integrics.com
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Craig Lawrence wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's a challenge for you:
> 
> - A mining company setting up a mine in outback Australia
> - 70 rooms for miners accommodation with an IP phone in each
> - 25 phones in offices in and around the plant
> - need a system that is similar to a calling card system for the miners
> - need a standard PBX system for the office workers
> - both systems should reside in the same server
> - the PBX should allow miners to call other miners in the accommodation
> or call to or from office phones to accommodation 
> - miners are not permitted to call outside the internal extensions from
> their accommodation handsets however if they dial into a calling card
> extension they should be asked for their PIN number and then be provided
> with a outbound dial tone. They should also be able to check account
> balances.
> - A billing system is required that will permit the mine management to
> charge for each destination as they choose either as an untimed call or
> timed. They also need to be able to give the miners a free account
> balance of say $50 per month as part of the mine employment terms. The
> credit should expire at the end of the month, at which time it will
> automatically top-up to say $50. 
> - Miners are to have DIDs for incoming calls in the accommodation with a
> voicemail system enabled on the phone as a message waiting indicator
> light (ie not via email) and they should be able to record a greeting,
> re-record the greeting, etc and dial into and listen to messages, replay
> and delete messages.
> - If an office phone was to dial the outside world and transfer the call
> to a room the miner would avoid payment - the customer is aware of this
> and accepts this deficiency.
> - each miner is to be given a "card" with his User Number on it and
> instructions for usage and voicemail on the reverse.  The card will also
> tell the miner how to log into the system and change their password
> (default password is to be the digits from his or her birth date eg
> 21/04/75). This instruction card is to be laminated and handed to the
> miner when he arrives at the mine.
> - the management interface should allow the mine administration to
> delete a miner account, add an account, view each miners account
> balance, view past calls (and print if needed), add once off call credit
> (if the miner wants to purchase more call credit), reset a password and
> view from which extension the calls were made.
> 
> Would anyone have any suggestion of a product that would do most or all
> of the above?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Craig Lawrence
> 
> 
> 
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