Mark, any details on the dialing format for your new provider? How many numbers are required to call out? For instance, with my provider, since I have a 416 number, I dial 7 digits for all 416 numbers (omit area code) and dial 11 digits (1 + area codes) for everything else, regardless of where it is. The biggest drawback to this with my provider is that caller ID always comes in as 10 digits for non-416 numbers.
The company that I'm using right now, voip.ms , uses 10-digit dialing, with or without the
1- in front of the 10-digits. They don't care if the
1- is there or not (a Good Thing).
But.. my Linksys PAP2T ATA has user-programmable dialing plans, so I've set up that device for 7-digit local dialing (or 10 or 11 digits: all of those work), and lots of other cool things. Using this "dialing plan" string:
S:10,( <:613>[2-9][2-9]xxxxxS0 | 1900! | 900! | 1.[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0 | 18xxxxxxxxxS0 | [34689]11S0 | 011xxxxxx.S5 | 09730021S0 | *xxS0 )Rather cool, that. Just replace
613 with your local area code (
416) to customize for the GTA.
The PAP2T has tons of other cool telephony features too, like CID (Caller-ID) based forwarding, blocking, and/or ring-tones.
Cheers
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