[Asterisk-Users] FWD-gateway prefix

[The Traveller]

Hey Chris,

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:12:57 +0200, Chris Wetemans wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "The Traveller" <traveler at xs4all.nl>
> 
> 
> > Hey all,
> >
> > As there seem to be some problems with DTMF-signalling between chan_sip
> > and several clients, due to which many could not properly dial a number
> > at the dial-tone of the XS4ALL-gateway at FWD-number "42442", I've now
> > arranged for a prefix on FWD for this gateway.
> >
> > >From FWD, you can now dial "1010-666", followed by the Dutch toll-free
> > number or IAXTel-number you wish to reach, as you would have dialled it
> > from the dial-tone at FWD-number "42442".
> 
> 
> I've tried dialing the following from my FWD-client (X-lite):
> 1010-666-800-0402
> 1010-666-0800-0402
> 1010-666-31800-0402
> none of them worked.
> Am I doing something wrong?

The correct way to dial Dutch toll-free numbers using the gateway-prefix is:

1010-666-0800-<rest of number>

I haven't tried the "*31(800)..." they mention on their site yet, but
I don't have special provisioning on the gateway for it and the first
time I heared about it, was in their newsletter.  They're either using
a different gateway for it, or re-write the number to use the prefix
internally.

I'm currently only allowing "0800-0101" (KPN calling-card and
collect-calls, IVR-system) of the short "0800"-numbers, as some of
them are service-numbers, tied to the phone-line calling them, on which
you can change service, request accumulated charges, etc. for the
line from which you're calling, without any other authentication.  Not
a good thing to allow anyone to access for our lines.  :-)  I might
have a closer look at it in the future and allow the non-service
short numbers only.

All long numbers (0800-XXXXXXX) are allowed through the gateway.

> On the FWD website it says you can dial 31-800-0402 directly , but that
> doesn't work either

"0800-0402" has never worked through the XS4ALL-gateway.
Where on their site did you read that this number should work?
Maybe it was on one of their forums and they didn't write it
themselves?  Otherwise, you should mail them about the error on
their site.

BTW: The PSTN access-number on their site is also incorrect.  It
should be "+31 20 3987567".  Although the old number they mention
still works, it only has limited capacity and will probably be taken
out of service at some point.  "www.gnophone.com" also still mentions the
old number.

Furthermore, they mention you have to dial "170099<number>" through it
to reach FWD-numbers.  At the moment, you can dial any FWD-number
directly, which eliminates the extra hop in the call, as it won't have
to go through IAXTel.



    Grtz,

       Oliver