[Asterisk-Users] Forwarding To Cell Phones with Asterrisk PBX

[Paul]

Theo Chao wrote:

> We may have gotten ahead of ourselves - if we have a PRI line and a 
> linux server running asteriks, is that the only hardware we need to 
> forward out to cell phones and to figure out which phone picks up a 
> given call?

Maybe. See my original suggestion:

>>
>> Have the system call multiple numbers and start playing an 
>> identifying message on answer. The first one to send back a dtmf 1 
>> gets the call. That prevents the * system from sending callers into 
>> things like cell voicemail or network error messages.
>
If you can be sure that the caller won't be transferred to a voice 
mailbox that answered or a system message like "The cellular subscriber 
you are trying to reach is out of range at the moment", there is no need 
to consider my approach at all.