Tips on Asterisk in New Zealand
This guide offers some suggestions for getting Asterisk to work properly in New Zealand, specifically with a PRI purchased from TelstraClear connected to a TE110p card. For more tips on POTS lines, see Australia Asterisk Details
My zaptel.conf is below:
[trunkgroups]
[channels]
language=en
context=from-pri
signalling=pri_cpe
rxwink=300
usecallerid=yes
hidecallerid=no
callwaiting=yes
usecallingpres=yes
callwaitingcallerid=yes
threewaycalling=yes
transfer=yes
cancallforward=yes
callreturn=yes
echocancel=yes
echocancelwhenbridged=no
echotraining=800
rxgain=2.0
txgain=0.0
group=0
callgroup=1
pickupgroup=1
immediate=no
switchtype=euroisdn
channel = 1-15
channel = 17-25
;faxdetect=both
faxdetect=incoming
;faxdetect=outgoing
;faxdetect=no
and my zapata.conf:
span=1,1,0,ccs,hdb3,crc4
bchan=1-15
dchan=16
bchan=17-31
loadzone = nz
defaultzone=nz
Problems
Calls from Vodafone NZ customers or via WorldXchange 0800 numbers
We found that calls coming from Vodafone NZ customers or via WorldXchange 0800 numbers that arrived via our PRI at a destination that didn’t result in the line ringing (eg. an unregistered SIP extension with voice mail) caused the caller to get dead air. This was fixed by adding the following to the begining of the context that first handled the inbound call.
April 7, 2023
Phone System 