[asterisk-users] How to handle "+" prefix

[Rob Townley]

i live in the US, but travel.  i will second this ... Vodafone in Europe
will give you a discount when you dial with a '+' instead of the local
access code.  Probably because Europeans roam in many foreign countries each
with a different access code for long distance dialing.  That would be
messy, detect which country the user is calling in before pattern matching
the phone # ... takes time and slows down calls per minute.  '+' dialing
should be supported out of the box.

Putting a '+' in your Yahoo address book and then syncing that to your phone
is easy.  That way, i can always dial that +0353 from whichever country i
happen to be in at the time.

On 8/31/07, Mr Shunz <mrshunz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/31/07, Anthony Francis <anthonyf at rockynet.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if you intended to be rude with the "normal
> > human" comment but it sure seems like it when reading your
> > reply. Also how many users know they can dial ** to get a +?
> > Especially when so many cannot as said earlier be relied upon
> > to know their country access code. I guess my point is if
> > there isn't a + key on the phone, and on most there is not,
> > then it simply shouldn't be used. Mindfully wanting to use a +
> > instead of knowing the international access code seems like
> > willful ignorance to me.
>
> Actually here in Italy cell phone companies send you the caller
> id ALWAYS with the international prefix (as +39) so i (and every
> one i know) have the address book filled with numbers like
> +393....... Having tested various GSM + WiFi + SIP phones
> we had to take care of this case
>
> actually we use to call only Italy so we have smth like:
>
> exten => _+39.,1,Macro(dialCell)
>
> and
>
> [macro-dialCell]
> exten => s,1,Dial(OH323/${MACRO_EXTEN:3}@${GATEWAY},,TW)
>
> cheers
>
> --
> Daniele Santi        .o.
> MrShunz at gmail.com    ..o
> Linux User #415108   ooo
>
> _______________________________________________
> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--
>
> asterisk-users mailing list
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070831/bdbc5d89/attachment.htm