Re: [VoiceOps] Get ready for a weird dialplan change. 9-8-8 suicide hotline.

2020-07-18 Thread Brandon Svec
Great idea to do it now for whomever would like to. It looks like this is just an announcement with no details around implementation yet, but anyone managing a PBX or voip resellers, etc. should be able to allow this quite easily. Presumably this will be handled at the LEC level and everyone else

Re: [VoiceOps] Get ready for a weird dialplan change. 9-8-8 suicide hotline.

2020-07-18 Thread Matthew Yaklin
Tell that to a large city customer who has 100 plus fax machines with a 9 programmed in for all the speed dials still sitting on the DMS100 and we want to move them to Meta. Naturally they still want the 9. Sigh. I bet 99.9% of them cannot even recall why that 9 existed in the first place when

Re: [VoiceOps] Get ready for a weird dialplan change. 9-8-8 suicide hotline.

2020-07-18 Thread Mike Johnston
I second that. If your phone system requires a "9", you are doing it wrong. ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

Re: [VoiceOps] Get ready for a weird dialplan change. 9-8-8 suicide hotline.

2020-07-18 Thread Carlos Alvarez
We killed all requirements to dial nine nearly ten years ago. It’s a crazy skeuomorph in 2020. -- Sent from my iPad > On Jul 18, 2020, at 8:41 PM, John Levine wrote: > > In article > you > write: >> >> Fortunately, all we have to do is setup call forwarding for 988 calls to go >> to

Re: [VoiceOps] Get ready for a weird dialplan change. 9-8-8 suicide hotline.

2020-07-18 Thread John Levine
In article you write: > >Fortunately, all we have to do is setup call forwarding for 988 calls to go >to +1-800-273-8255 For places where you dial 9 for an outside line, are you adding rules for 9-88, 9-988, both? Neither? ___ VoiceOps mailing list

Re: [VoiceOps] Get ready for a weird dialplan change. 9-8-8 suicide hotline.

2020-07-18 Thread Ross Tajvar
This is very cool! Should we (as a VoIP reseller/not a CLEC) be doing this forward or should we expect our upstreams to do it? On Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 10:53 PM Mark R Lindsey, ECG wrote: > Fortunately, all we have to do is setup call forwarding for 988 calls to > go to +1-800-273-8255 > > If

Re: [VoiceOps] Get ready for a weird dialplan change. 9-8-8 suicide hotline.

2020-07-18 Thread Mark R Lindsey, ECG
Fortunately, all we have to do is setup call forwarding for 988 calls to go to +1-800-273-8255 If anyone here would like to help, they can send me the config steps necessary to make this work on the platforms you manage. I’ll collect and publish them (tentatively at http://988.support/ ). For

[VoiceOps] Get ready for a weird dialplan change. 9-8-8 suicide hotline.

2020-07-18 Thread Jay Hennigan
This should be fun. FCC is designating 9-8-8 as a service code. https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-designates-988-national-suicide-prevention-lifeline -- Jay Hennigan - j...@west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV ___ VoiceOps