asterisk users - May 2008 - Zambia Africa

I am working with an Asterisk user in Zambia Africa who cant get any 
info on his lines from his telco. One guy says its reverse polarity 
another said the telephone system was established by the Japanese. We 
are assuming UK as this is/was a UK colony. Anyone familiar with the 
region and know what may need to be done to get asterisk working. The 
telco will not seem to accept the fact he wants to call out... We are 
going to take some line measurements and dig in to the fundamentals  I 
am just looking to see if someone has opened this can of worms before.

Thanks

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I do not know about Zambia but I worked in Kenya who also was a British
colony.  My only advise can be: patience.  African nations have built
their telephone systems on whatever they can get for cheap.  This means
that some areas will have equipment from Japan, others from UK, Sweden,
etc.  Because of this what works in an area may not work in another
within the same city!

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:56 -0700, James Finstrom wrote:
> I am working with an Asterisk user in Zambia Africa who cant get any 
> info on his lines from his telco. One guy says its reverse polarity 
> another said the telephone system was established by the Japanese. We 
> are assuming UK as this is/was a UK colony. Anyone familiar with the 
> region and know what may need to be done to get asterisk working. The 
> telco will not seem to accept the fact he wants to call out... We are 
> going to take some line measurements and dig in to the fundamentals  I 
> am just looking to see if someone has opened this can of worms before.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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Director de Tecnolog?a
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