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Thanks Einstein. That was helpful. Express talk it will be.

BTW I confirm that there is no video support in either Zoiper or Zoiper Biz.

Cheers,

Hi all,

I have a general question about whether either of the two softphones "Zoiper Biz" or "Express Talk Biz" has any advantage, over the other when working with the basic phone answering and call transfer functions of IVM.

Cheers !

To be fair, the native IVR functionality built-into Asterisk is not that easy to program, certainly nothing like setting up call flow in IVM. Of course you are right that Asterisk would provide a much more powerful platform for handling automated inbound/outbound calling, but for the novice, I wouldn't recommend it.

 

Anyway for whatever reason Asterisk does not find "02124551111" to be a valid extension or phone number. Make sure you double check your dialplans and see if there are any dialplan settings which differ between your IVM extension and your softphone (also consider the softphone might have its own dialplans). Also where are you located? The number "02124551111" does not seem to conform to any common world dial plans that I can think of.

Pythonpoole,

I agree 100% with your statement about programming Asterisk. It is much more robust and fail safe but also much much more cumbersome to setup in particular for complicated dialplans.

On the subject of the nature of number such as 021 DDD DDDD, this looks like a Chinese number located in Shanghai.

If you call that number from outside China, you will dial +86 21 DDD DDDD.

From inside China you need to drop the int'l country code and add in the prefix 0. Same thing in a lot of European countries.

Can't believe that phone # starting with 0 aren't supported by IVM. Must be something else. Also if the same number CAN be dialed from the softphone....

Cheers.