[asterisk-users] Busy (congestion) signal and cell phones

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Gimelfarb
Hello, all! I've noticed a peculiar situation and I am hoping someone can shed some light on it for me. We have an Asterisk (1.4.18 ) box talking to the world via Zaptel on a PRI from a telco (USA). I have an extension that returns busy signal (fast-busy or regular busy) (using US tones).

Re: [asterisk-users] Busy (congestion) signal and cell phones

2008-04-16 Thread Godwin Stewart
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:40:42 -0500, Mark Gimelfarb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why do cell phones and Gizmo both detect busy tones and terminate the call? Is that a standard behavior? It *is* standard procedure for a cellphone to terminate a call immediately it discovers that the called number

Re: [asterisk-users] Busy (congestion) signal and cell phones

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Wieling
What country are you in?? Yes, it is common for cell phones to disconnect the call if they receive CONGESTION, but not BUSY. Horwich IT Services (Godwin Stewart) wrote: It *is* standard procedure for a cellphone to terminate a call immediately it discovers that the called number is busy. It

[asterisk-users] Busy (congestion) signal and cell phones

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Gimelfarb
I'm in the US, so I was originally using the US tones. Looks like I'm getting a disconnect with both CONGESTION and BUSY. In fact, I wasn't actually using Congestion() and Busy(), I just did Playtones() for both of those. There is no reason to send PRI messages to cell phones, is there? The