asterisk users - Dec 2004 - Restrict outbound calls on Broadvoice

Hello,

I have been researching Asterisk and have a few questions.  Is it possible to
allow users to only call certain area codes?  Reason for this is that the plan
from BroadVoice allows unlimited calling to certain countries.  Any country
outside of this plan would be charged on a per minute basis and I am trying to
avoid that.

Another question is if there is a way to distinguish a land line phone number
from a cell phone number?  Some plans charge more for cell phone calls.

Last question I have is if I subscribe to Broadvoice, is it possible to have 3
SIP phones connected to the Asterisk PBX and have them all make simultaneous
calls under 1 account with Broadvoice?

Main reason why I'm trying to setup an Asterisk server is so that some hotel
guests can dial long distance but I wouldn't be allowing incoming calls. 
The hotel has regular phones for this.

Regards,

Jimmy
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Jimmy,
> allow users to only call certain area codes?
Create a dial plan that requires the area code to match, and send all other 
non-matching calls into an extension that plays an 'unauthorized'
message,
or whatever you want.

I have this for the "world plan"

[broadvoice-toll-free]
; US calls (7 and 11 digits)
exten => _NXXXXXX,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN:1})

; Broadvoice International free
exten => _01131.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01132.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01133.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01134.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _011353.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01139.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01141.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01143.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01144.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01145.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01146.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01147.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01149[2-9].,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01156.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01161.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01165.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _011852.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _01186.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})
exten => _011886.,1,Macro(outcall,${EXTEN})

The outcall macro sets a few more things up (namely determine the outgoing 
line to use) and Dials(${ARG1}@${OUTGOING_LINE})
> way to distinguish a land line phone number from a cell phone number?
Certain countries have designated area codes for cell phones. For Germany, 
it's 17... so I simply disallow any area code that starts with 1 in the plan
above. That works for me.... for now. Filtering cell phones in other 
countries is harder...
> 3 SIP phones connected to the Asterisk PBX and have them
> all make simultaneous calls under 1 account with Broadvoice?
Yes. See the Dial command, you can specify multiple extensions to ring:
ex: Dial(SIP/EXT1&SIP/EXT2&SIP/EXT3)

--Luki