[Asterisk-Users] * dialing before line is open?

[john lawler]

Hi guys,

I've had a sporadic problem recently with one of my users on our POTS 
line.  About 1/3 of the time he dials a number (usually from a speeddial 
on his phone, I think), he'll get some phone company message (from the 
outside) about how the call could not be completed as dialed or 
something like that.

However, the logs (and the console) always show the correct dialed digits.

Anyone have a similar symptom?  I theorize that perhaps Asterisk picks 
up the line and starts dialing too quickly for our service 
occasionally.  Is there a way that I could stick a delay before the 
digits are sent down the wire to test this theory?  I checked out the 
wiki but didn't see much pertaining to this.  I figure maybe you can put 
some control characters on the beginning of a dial string to have it 
pause, but it doesn't seem to be ',' or 'p'.

Thanks,

jl