On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:01 -0400, Jag Basrai wrote: > I recently started using Asterisk as our homes voicemail. Its rather > convienient to have multiple voice mails, one for each member of the > family. A week ago I opened my cell phone bill and noticed that I > could probably save $5 per cell phone if I had the cell phone forward > a missed call to asterisk rather than the voicemail service provided > by Fido. With 5 cell users that's $25/month. So what I did was in my > dial plan i just checked for CallerID of the cell phone if it matched > a certain number it would go straight to a specific voicemail > bypassing the auto attendant. But when I did this (which worked fine > if the cell called the asterisk box) the CallerID forwarded by Fido is > the same as the person who called not the CallerID of the cell phone. > So if my cell number is 123-123-1234 and the number calling me is > 111-111-1111 then the cell will forward 111-111-1111 not 123-123-1234, > which I thought was the case as the cell would forward its own > number. > > Now I can not figure out how to make my dial plan do what it needs > too. Does anyone know how I could set it up so that each cell user > will have its own voicemail rather than going through auto attendant. > Is this even possible?
This is normally done with DID, Direct Inward Dialing. I'm told that one
can get DIDs from VoIP providers fairly cheaply.
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