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

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@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/31/07, Anthony Francis <anthonyf@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

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Daniele Santi        .o.
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