wow, that's a great idea..... as a matter of fact, it sounds just as good as when i mentioned it in this post http://lists.freeswitch.org/pipermail/freeswitch-users/2007-October/001644.h... I'm sure you probably elaborated on what was there a bit, but isn't it the same basic idea -ilm trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
I wrote a generic dialplan that can be localized via user variables and would like people to customize it by creating variable definitions for their respective countries/regions.
r6852 contains SRC/scripts/contrib/trixter/dialplan dialplan.nanpa.xml dialplan.nl.xml localized.dialplan.xml
localized.dialplan.xml is a dialplan include dialplan.*.xml is a localized USER DIRECTORY variable definition
To use, include localized.dialplan.xml into your dialplan. For each user (or global if you want) include the dialplan.*.xml appropriate for your locality into the user variable section.
This should give you the ability to call international, domestic out of area, local - same area, and emergency. In the case on NANPA I have made the emergency regexp a little looser so that all X11 services are direct route to the provider (eg 411, 611, 911, etc).
Most of the EU/EEA countries only need to adjust the country code variable and the local area (do not prefix 0 eg amsterdam NL is 20 not 020, London england is 20[7|8] not 020[7|8]). This is so that ENUM routing will work properly.
If anyone finds a situation where this does not work properly I would appreciate it if they would let me know so that I can try to make something better that does work universally everywhere, however I think it should generally work most places.
I see this more for multi-national providers to allow their customers to dial in a way they are more familiar with, giving the users easy choice in how their profile is built, as well as end users dealing with providers that generally have a single fixed dialplan but as a user you want to be able to dial like you would with the PSTN.
It would be a nice touch for a provider to allow their users to dial as though they were on the pstn without requiring the UA to do a lot of the work, especially when the provider doesnt exactly control the UA. This is a feature I see missing from a great many providers on multiple continents.