On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Lacy Moore - Aspendora wrote: > I have a suggestion regarding dial plan. When I first started I saw no > reason to have to dial 9 first for outside calls. Because I wanted to be > able to dial out from the missed calls list, I chose to eliminate the dial 9 > requirement. I'm now regretting it, primarily because 711 is a valid > number, but also a parking spot. I can handle 911, and I can handle 411, > but 711 is going to be a pain. > > Just wanted to give you something to consider when you are starting out. > Something I didn't consider.
This is going to be very country specific. Here in the UK, I've installed several small systems without a dial-9 for an outside line type thing. The outside line prefix is effectively digit zero. (which is preserved and dialled on the outgoing zap lines) The down-side is that you then have to dial the entire 10 or 11 digit number to make a call, even a local call where you would normally drop the 4 or 5 digit STD prefix, but that really isn't a problem now as we've been doing it that way for years on our mobiles, and incoming caller-id is always the full number starting with 0, so we tend to use the full number in the speed dials, especially if the phone uses the speed-dial name+number to identify incoming calls... (Which does irritate me when I'm in some town I don't know very well and ask someone for their phone number and they just give me the local part!) There is an exception for 999, and I still provide the 9 service too for things like 100 (BT operator), and other services like directory enquiries, fault reporting, etc. it's easier to just provide the 9 service too and then advise the punters that's the way it is :) Gordon _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
