[Asterisk-Users] Announcement to caller when called party haspicked up - without initial Answer()?

[Peter Svensson]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Alex Barnes wrote:

> Also I was under the impression that in Europe calls are charged as soon
> as you start ringing and not on pickup (this may be out of date as its
> been a while since my school skiing trip ;-P )

Not in all countries at least. Sweden has always had the charge start only 
on answer. I expect most of Europe to use a similar convention. At least I 
have never encountered a payphone in Europe that consumed my coins before 
the line was answered. 

Peter