asterisk users - Mar 2004 - 800 Numbers (was Re: NuFone?)

I have been having the same problem with 800 numbers.  NuFone and 
VoicePulse always behave the same (when one can't connect, neither can 
the other).

I have so far found no explanation for this.  Some other 800 and 877 
numbers I can call.

Can you elaborate on this at all?

Thanks!
>  o I couldn't dial 800 numbers via Nufone (IAXTel and PSTN worked)
>    - I had forwarded him all pertinent information from my configs - All I
>got from support was, "Everyone else can." and "I can't
reproduce
>      it" and "we treat 800 the same as all other US calls",
even after I had
>suggested that it wasn't him, it was the carrier he passes the call to.
>    - I finally figured out that his carrier requires exactly 10 digits in
the
>      callerID, for tollfree numbers.  This requirement does not exist for
any
>other US number.
>  
>

I did not have intermitent access.  I could not dial any tollfree number at all.
It had to do with the CallerID I was sending.  It needs to be 10 digits exactly.

<quote who="Matt Lawson">
> I have been having the same problem with 800 numbers.  NuFone and
> VoicePulse always behave the same (when one can't connect, neither can
> the other).
>
> I have so far found no explanation for this.  Some other 800 and 877
> numbers I can call.
>
> Can you elaborate on this at all?
>
> Thanks!

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