RE: OT : 14 digit phone numbers!

["Mick Furlong" <hiltoneltd@xxxxxxx>]

Phil

 

I can see this becoming a problem with a number of alternative carriers....

 

It might be worth asking Fast24 if they offer carrier preselection....basically this means that any numbers in certain categories that you dial are routed over another carrier WITHOUT dialling any extra digits.

 

Depending on the carrier offering it you can have one CPS for national calls and /or one CPS for international calls or the same carrier for both.

 

Or you can go the whole hog and have an all calls option which covers local, national, international, calls to mobiles, specially tariffed calls, personal numbers and paging.

 

They probably dont do it and it is overkill for what you want but maybe worth a try.

 

Alternatively do BT offer any form of short code dialling on the network?...I seem to recall a facility where you could store numbers in BTs network and use a short code to dial it. Probably never made it to market though.

 

Mick

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 23 January 2002 10:11
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] OT : 14 digit phone numbers!

Just got off the phone with NetGear's tech support for the second time
this morning.

The first call (I assume their tech support is in France as everyone I
spoke to was French) was pointless with the guy telling me that when the
system status said "Idle" it meant it was connected OK ... Even though
the "Connection time" was (and remained) 00:00:00!

The second call answered the problem...

(Think "French accent") "Ah Non ... You cannot have a 14 digeet
fonnumber - A 14 digeet fonnumber cannot exist, eez not a real
fonnumber. You 'ave eet incorrrect ... Remove zee 143 and eet weel work.
Nooooon ... Ze 143 is not part of a Breetizsh fonnumber"

Well, it does work taking out the 143 but then I don't get the "free"
phone call service of Fast24 which is why I'm paying 'em £166 a year!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Des Gibbons [mailto:des@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 January 2002 08:43
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT : 14 digit phone numbers!
>
>
> Just had a quick look on the netgear site, they mention that
> the dial prefix was increased a digit in software version
> 1.42, I don't know if that helps any?
>
> There is also a later version (1.50) but no mention of phone
> number length in it.
>
> Des
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 02:53
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> > Subject: [ukha_d] OT : 14 digit phone numbers!
> >
> >
> >
> > Have just got my login details through for Fast24 and they have a
> > 14 digit phone number which my router won't accept (Fast24 use a
> > 143 prefix on their number)...
> >
> > ...after trying for about an hour to get the router working on
> > their number (without the 143 prefix it's fine but costs me a
> > local call charge) I gave up and decided to run my old external
> > BT Speedway ISDN TA on my Win2k box.
> >
> > Nope ... Can't find Win 2k drivers for the BT speedway on the
> > Internet and there are only 95 and 98 drivers on the supplied CD!
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas how to get a NetGear RT328 router to dial a
> > 14 digit number or where to find Win2k Drivers for an external
> > serial BT Speedway ISDN TA?
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
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