I'm curious about something minor, and haven't seen anything covering it yet: If you want to match an 11 digit US phone number (and know that ONLY proper numbers are being passed to this portion of your dialplan), which is more speed & memory efficient: exten = _1.,1,VERBOSE(1|${EXTEN}) or exten = _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,VERBOSE(1|${EXTEN}) Thanks for any info, SKM