I work for a 2nd tier telco, we set our own max number lengths, hence why this information is important to us. I'm assuming your other comments are for Ian, not me, as there is nothing wrong with our network. I agree that setting max number lengths on a PABX is probably not the best practice and is something which is best left to the telco. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Phillips [mailto:steve(a)focb.co.nz] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:56 AM To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Vodafone dial pattern - another change ? Daniel Quigan wrote:
Not entirely. Traditional voice often has a "max number" setting which stops people from dialing extra digits. Currently for Vodafone this would be 7, if they're now using 8 for pre-pay then this would need to be increased to 8 to allow for these new numbers.
Yep, and AFAIK this is set to around 14. So, two digits for the country code, two for access code leaves 10 digits that vodafone can play with. (I'll confirm the exact number later if anyone cares, but its something close to that) Why would you assume that they will use 7 ? its a decision that they can make entirely arbitarily, they own the space below +6421 and as such can dictate pretty much any number. (afaik the reasons its set to 14 are due to equipment limitations over anything else, Enum and VoIP may end up negating a lot of these limitations.) As I pointed out, there are other ways to solve a problem rather than relying on something out of your control (always a flawed model) - Why not start to employ some of them and fix YOUR system rather than ask <insert third party business here> to change their systems to suit you ? -- Steve. _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog