Some companies give you more than 10 digits, for example if they use an alpha-numeric phone number (for example, 800. callthis). I just ran into an issue where the phone would not connect if I put in the whole string (“number cannot be dialed as is”), but it does connect if I put in 10 digits. (in t…

No, 800 numbers are always 10 digits, the extra digits are intended to be mnemonic and should always be discarded

I am surprised any company would still advertise like this. You used to be able to dial the longer numbers in the analog days because the POTS switch would start routing your call as soon as it received the first 11 (with initial 1) or 10 digits. So you could keep on dialing and it would be ignored.…

[image] Dial Plan - Dropping extra digits FreePBX Having issue with dialing out from FreePBX using a full vanity phone number that exceeds 10 digits. Need Dial plan syntax to drop characters after 10 digits are dialed. Exaggerated Example: 800MYLONGPHONENUMBER Need it …

Dialing more than 10 numbers

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Stewart1 (Stewart) October 20, 2020, 5:12pm 4