On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 19:13 +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote: > But +44118 doesn't translate to 118, it translates to 0118, and is the > normal geographical code for Reading. I've no idea why the OP said it > was premium rate.
not to nitpick but this is a pet peeve, 0 is a dialing prefix not part of the number, all it does is say "I am dialing someone in a different city/exchange but still in the same country". I do not know if this is what he meant but the real number would be +44118 for reading (assuming you are right on the city, which I will go ahead and do). 0118 is a UK national dialing prefix of '0' plus the city code 118. And to take this slightly further and make a request for all providers :) It would really be better if dialed numbers and caller id was all presented as e.164 and all things like national dialing prefixes, etc were removed. A problem I see, which exists in multiple countries, is for caller id if its international you get the country code, if its domestic you do not, but you have no way of knowing whether that is the case or not so you have to do a whole lot of munging to try to figure it out. The same goes with dialed numbers, some providers want a + prefix, some want 011/00 (another dial prefix), etc. Just normalize it all and let the end equipment create the dialplan the customer is comfortable with (ie short dialing for same city, they select if they want 00 or 011, etc). -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
