sncbhle18 wrote:I'm planning to get my own ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) complete with a VoIP unlock key in the future and I wanted to know - what is the "preferred" dial plan for the FPL (FreePhoneLine) service? As I live in Ontario, I wanted to access the Ontario 511 Road Information service, complete with accessing the 211 and 311 services (where available).
You need to find out what those phone numbers actually are in your area because simply dialing "211", for example, won't work.
So, with an OBi ATA, you'll want to add |211|311|411|511|611|811|310xxxx somewhere in your Physical Interfaces-->phone port-->digitmap
And then in Service Providers--> ITSP Profile (Freephoneline) General-->digitmap, you'll want to add something like
|<211:4163974636>|<311:4163922489>|<511:4162354686>|<611:4164772010>|<811:8667970000>|<:416>310xxxx
Now, I've used examples for Toronto because I was actually just working on this for someone in Toronto. So, dialing 211 is going to dial 4163974636 automatically.
Otherwise, dialing 211 isn't going to work properly.
"<:416>" adds 416 before 310 phone numbers. You'll need to change "416" to whatever area code you're in.
You'll need to lookup what the actual phone numbers are for where you live and change those phone numbers accordingly.
I'm planning to get either one of the Grandstream ATAs or one of the Cisco ATAs
As others have mentioned, get an OBi ATA.
that also supports Attended/Blind Call Transfers (a feature that I've been actively looking for - even though FPL/Fongo doesn't necessarily supports it in my opinion)
FPL does support the feature. I don't see how any VoIP provider that supports 3 way calling can't support blind transfer, actually.
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=3039.0Here is the procedure (as copied from RonR):
- Have a call already in progress
- Press the FLASH button on your phone
- Wait for a new dialtone
- Dial *blindtransfer code
- Wait for a new dialtone
- Dial the number that the call is to be transferred to
- Wait for a confirmation tone
- Hang up the phone