<div dir="ltr"><div>We do very permissive dialing. Handsets have a default area code, so they can do 7 digit dialing if they want. We used to accept a 9+ but not require it, but about ten years ago dropped that. Funnily enough, the only problem was a support ticket 1-2 years ago from a long-time customer, with one employee who couldn't dial out. She suddenly woke up one Monday forgetting that we dropped the 9+ ten years ago! 1+ or ten digits is fine for us also. The phone timeouts are set pretty low so it works fine, and we only get a small number of accidental short dials because of it.</div><div><br></div><div>The 9+ dialing seemed to be causing some 911 misdials, which is why we removed it as allowable. And that definitely helped. BUT...we still process 9911 as a 911 call, it's just that people not having to regularly dial the 9 first has helped stop accidental calls.</div><div><br></div><div>We block 411. It's 2020.</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 9:49 AM Mike Johnston <<a href="mailto:mjohnston@wiktel.com">mjohnston@wiktel.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2020-07-19 11:21, Ryan Delgrosso wrote:<br>
> if there is any pre-9 dialing going on, i just add a 8 digit and 11 <br>
> digit check for leading 9s and drop them at ingress and then both use <br>
> cases are gracefully managed.<br>
<br>
Sounds like a form of permissive dialing. Jam digits in, your <br>
translations will sort it out. I like it!<br>
<br>
So for example, if I dialed an 8-digit string starting with a 9, such as...<br>
9-555-2222<br>
...it would strip the 9 and send it out as...<br>
555-2222<br>
...?<br>
<br>
And if I dialed an 11-digit string starting with a 9, such as...<br>
9-619-555-2222<br>
...again, it would strip the 9 and send it out as...<br>
619-555-2222<br>
...?<br>
<br>
Do you have issues with timeouts, though? Especially in the 7/8-digit <br>
case? However, this new 988 order will require many areas to convert to <br>
10-digit dialing (including mine), which may make that irrelivent.<br>
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