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911 Misdial handling

nuditarian
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How many out there are using 9 for outside dial prefix, and do any of you have issues with people misdialing 911? If so, do you handle it, or does the local 911 operator just deal with the extra calls?

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Hi,

We had this issue as well and found that in most cases it was caused by the way the caller-ID for missed calls was presented, so that if users pressed dial without using edit dial first they dial 911.

We implemented a workaround first by removing the 911 route pattern and adding the 9.911 route pattern. Next, we are now in the works to add a translation profile to the gateways to add the 9 for an outside line to the caller-ID.

BTW, we sufferd the same in our EU countries where the emergency number is 112 and I just tested the translation profile with succes for these sites.

Here is the config for the Netherlands, similar one should be possible for the US I guess (have not yet tested it):

!

voice translation-rule 2

rule 1 /\(^.........$\)/ /00\1/

rule 2 /\(^..........$\)/ /000\1/

rule 3 /\(^...........$\)/ /000\1/

rule 4 /\(^............$\)/ /000\1/

rule 5 /\(^.............$\)/ /000\1/

rule 6 /\(^..............$\)/ /000\1/

rule 7 /\(^...............$\)/ /000\1/

!

voice translation-profile AddLeadingZero

translate calling 2

!

dial-peer voice 100 pots

translation-profile incoming AddLeadingZero

incoming called-number

direct-inward-dial

!

With this in place users can just press dial on missed calls without accidentally dialing the 112 emergency number :-)

Hope this helps,

Leo