HI All, Have searched a bit for this one, but cant seem to find any indication of how you might use a dial prefix with the hash / pound sign as part fo the prefix. I have a gsm pod set up on asterisk which all works fine, but i want to disable cli on the outbound calls over this particular trunk. The network that the pod is on allows blocking of sending CLI by prefixing your dialed number with #31#. I have tried putting a rule into localprefixes to use this as a prefix, but if i have the # sybols in there, the rule doesnt seem to get a match. If i leave the # symbols out and just have the 31 as a prefix, the match works, but dialing the number with just 31 prefixed ends up with a invalid phone number and no call being connected. The rules i have tried are - [trunk-2] rule1=#31#+04. [trunk-2] rule1="#31#"+04. [trunk-2] rule1=_#31_#+04. and [trunk-2] rule1=31+04. none of which work as desired. Is there some way of indicating a hash / pound symbol for this use or some way of escaping it so that the rule will work? Cheers, Ben