[asterisk-users] UK call initiating party hangup control on analoghome lines

[Roberts Klotins]

Hi Gordon,

The test would be call your home BT line, hang up the home end and THEN
wait for how long time the line will stay open listening to the handset
that initiated the call. 

If it is the caller (call initiator) who hangs up, line is released very
quickly.

But perhaps thats what you are doing, since you say that the line is
cleared inside 10 minutes (I have never waited that long). If I call
from T-mobile - line is cleared in 30 sec, if I call from Vodafone - it
stays open over 2 minutes; then I hang up Vodafone. If the call is made
from a landline - I also have waited over 2 minutes but not 10.

I am not sure what the difference is when you order the line and tell
about PABX, however it seems to me that if I now asked to set up my
existing line for PABX, they might say that this is not a business line,
therefore they can't help, mightn't they?

Robert

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 21:07 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Roberts Klotins wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Don,
> >
> > I have looked at that page and the described problem (when asterisk does
> > not detect remote (calling) party hangup) is exactly the opposite to my
> > case. In my case I learnt that for BT residential analog lines the
> > remote caller is entitled to hold the line open indefinitely, regardless
> > whether I hang up or not. So this seems to be a feature of BT rather
> > than a problem with asterisk.
> >
> > I do not know whether there are many countries where telco setup is
> > similar.
> 
> That might be worth a posting to usenet:uk.telecom ... I've a funny 
> feeling this is exchange dependant and it's not the same action for all 
> exchanges. I can call my home BT line, answer it, then hangup and the call 
> is cleared inside 10 minutes (usually 2-3) then I can make an outgoing 
> call.
> 
> I'm told that you need to tell BT that you have a PBX on the end of the 
> line, but I've never done that for any analogue installation I've done.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> 
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