Dave,
I do not have call fwd or voice mail on my bell cell phone and what we
try do is only give out the business number and extension.
The extensions we give out are really ring groups, which have all our
real extensions (phone, soft phone) and our cell phone numbers in them.
So when someone dials it, they all ring. If I'm at my desk or somewhere
else with my laptop online they always ring first before the cell and if
I'm truly not, then about 3 seconds later my cell rings. Since I have no
VM on my cell, if it is off or I don't pick up, the ring group rules
route the call to my asterisk VM.
Only downside to this is that all calls to the cell phones will be
occupying a channel in and out on your asterisk system.
But it works well for us.
Mike
David Steele wrote:
Thanks for the input, here are some comments back:
- Yes, I'm using a PRI. I was sorry to find out about RDNIS as well.
- Attempting to enter advanced strings using commas or "p" (pauses)
doesn't work on my cell phone at least. I had already tried and I
fooled around with it some more this morning - it seems that either my
cell phone refuses to interpret it as a star code request and actually
attempts to dial the string, or the carrier is at fault.
-Voipnetwork.ca <http://Voipnetwork.ca>'s offer of $1 DIDs is
tempting, but on closer inspection they require a minimum 500 minutes
per DID or the rate jumps to $5.95 a month. As long as I have an
underutilitized PRI at my disposal I would be better off paying the
$2.40/month fee to Bell for additional DIDs. Then I don't have to
worry about incremental voicemail-minute costs. A business case for
another day.
Long story short - yes, it looks like I need an individual DID per
cellphone voicemail box. Dang.
Thanks everyone.
Cheers,
Dave.
On 7/5/07, * Bernard Cresencia* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
voicenetwork.ca <http://voicenetwork.ca>'s unlimited incoming (no
per-minute) 647 DIDs would be perfect for this at $1.00 each (I
think it's USD). However, I don't know their reputation and
reliability. It would be cheap enough that everyone in the office
can get a voicemail DID.
Dave Donovan wrote:
On 7/5/07, *David Steele* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
OK, I've tested it out and it'll work for my initial
purposes, but is there any way I can generalize this for any
one in my company that wants to use this?
At the moment I have a specific DID for my voicemail access.
Is there a way to figure out the cell phone that is
forwarding the call? If I can get this I can build a lookup
table to match back to a voicemail box.
>From my debug I'm guessing that it isn't possible - my RDNIS
field is empty and my DNIS field shows the final DNIS, not
the original number dialed (the cell phone).
You say your RDNIS field is empty. I take it you're using a PRI
service? I never got to play with RDNIS and I always assumed it
would be there if I needed it, just based on the docs. I'm
disappointed to hear that it might not
I was thinking the same thing for my users here. I have about 15
Cel phone users with VM from the carrier and if we got rid of
Rogers voicemail it would save us a chunk of money a month. I
just haven't taken the time to work it out.
I have one possible solution to this. If your direct to mailbox
number was 416-555-1111 <http://www.snapanumber.com/> and the
users extension was 3000, you could try entering 416-555-1111
<http://www.snapanumber.com/>,,3000 as the destination number for
CFNA. That Then you just need a prompt that says "please enter
the mailbox of the person you're trying to reach". The trick is
that it's not your phone that dials that CFNA number, its stored
up in the network. I'm not sure if the carrier's switch will
respect the commas as pauses, but it might be worth a try.
Dave
Thoughts?
Thx.
On 7/5/07, *David Steele* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Thanks all!
I knew that I would be treading over old ground with this
one. I'm going to play around with a few of these options.
Cheers,
Dave.
On 7/5/07, * Ian Darwin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
David Steele wrote:
> Hi everyone, got a question for you.
>
> I've got my business number set to simultaneously
dial my office phone
> and cell phone. If I don't pick up either it goes
to my Asterisk
> voicemail. However, if my cell phone is turned off
the call goes to my
> cell voicemail immediately.
>
> I understand why this is the case, but I'm hoping
there is a way around
> this. I want simultaneous dialing, I want
centralized voicemail, I want
> my cake and I want to eat it too.
Stop paying your cell provider for voicemail; have
your cell forward to
* voicemail; it's probably cheaper and it gives you
more control with
fewer places to look for vmail.
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