asterisk users - Apr 2005 - Problem with PSTN

Hi,

I am a new user of Linux and Asterisk. I bought Digium TDM400P card and now 
want to setup my dial plan. With some help from the suggestions given online 
I have been able to configure the two SIP phones to interact with each 
other.

I want to use this to call on to a Telecom line(PSTN) and vice versa. I read 
somewhere that we need to use some provider for it like FWD or iconnect, do 
we need to use them to make outgoing and incoming calls to PSTN lines or we 
can do it without them. I can post my .conf files if anybody needs them to 
help me out with this. I don't know what should I put in the .conf files so 
that it enables these calls.

Any amount of help or suggestions would really be appreciated.

Thanx,
Salina

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> I want to use this to call on to a Telecom line(PSTN) and vice versa. I
read
> somewhere that we need to use some provider for it like FWD or iconnect, do
> we need to use them to make outgoing and incoming calls to PSTN lines or we
> can do it without them.
Try reading these articles:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/07/03/asterisk.html
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/22/asterisk2.html
>I don't know what should I put in the .conf files so
> that it enables these calls.
Download and print the available PDFand read it a few times
http://www.asteriskdocs.org

All the answers to your current questions (and more) are there.