[Asterisk-Users] call to a particular 800 number never shows answered on Zap channel

[Garth Summey]

This one drove me crazy for a while too.  I found out that some 
companies don't exactly play fair and don't pass answer supervision on a 
call until you are actually speaking with a live person.  The person I 
spoke to about this wasn't sure if that was even legal, but he said it 
happens quite a bit.  I was lucky in that I use multiple carriers 
(voipjet and broadvoice), voipjet disconnected the call after 60 
seconds, but broadvoice did not, so when I find one of those 800 numbers 
I route it through broadvoice.

Hope that helps,

G

Andy Goss wrote:
> Whenever we call IBM, the call counter on the phone never starts and in
> the CLI the zap channel never gets the answered signal from the PRI.
> See below.
> 
>     -- Executing Dial("SIP/5933-645d", "Zap/g1/18004267378") in new
> stack
>     -- Requested transfer capability: 0x00 - SPEECH
>     -- Called g1/18004267378
> 
> At this point, I am in IBM's menu system.  However the call never
> indicates that it is answered either on the phone or in the CLI.  After
> 60 seconds, the call disconnects.  
> 
>     -- Hungup 'Zap/1-1'
>   == Spawn extension (main, 18004267378, 1) exited non-zero on
> 'SIP/5933-7bff'
>     -- Executing Hangup("SIP/5933-7bff", "") in new stack
>   == Spawn extension (main, h, 1) exited non-zero on 'SIP/5933-7bff'
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
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> H. Andy Goss
> Network Engineer
> Network Advocates Inc.
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