configuring asterisk:cheap phone?

[Brent Harding]

Well, I think the other part of the idea was to set up a local number in the 
area he will travel to or call the tollfree from a landline out there. I 
think I'd do the first one if possible as it's probably cheaper. If you had 
free incoming on a cell, you could get all calls free without ever touching 
a plan minute unless the system went down.

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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: configuring asterisk:cheap phone?


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> This might not apply to you, but in my experience, dialing numbers
> considered toll free on land lines from your cell will still use your
> plan minutes. So, if you're trying to avoid long distance charges, you
> should be fine, but if you're point is to avoid using plan minutes,
> then I wouldn't bother with the whole setup, unless you know that toll
> free numbers really are toll free on your plan.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:59:27AM -0700, Shane W wrote:
>> For what you're trying to do, you don't really need a whole
>> calling card application. Just setup Asterisk as normal and
>> configure dialout capabilities as part of your voicemail
>> system. That way, you'll call your asterisk DID, go to
>> voicemail, login and dial through. The other option is to
>> configure disa such that when you call the DID, the number
>> rings busy but it calls you back with a login prompt, same
>> thing really but it depends on how your mobile is setup
>> cost wise.
>>
>> Personally, I just do the voicemail thing with an 800
>> number. Since Asterisk runs my home phones anyway, setting
>> this up was trivial.
>>
>> Ok so what you want in voicemail.conf to do this:
>> dialout=from-internal
>>
>> Replace from-internal with your internal dialing context,
>> if you're using FreePBX (why wouldn't you), it's
>> "from-internal".
>>
>> PS. cheapest did provider I've found thus far is
>> www.link2voip.com. Not suitable for your local line but
>> they'll originate and terminate long distance at good
>> rates.
>>
>> Shane
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