Loopback Destinations (Inbound Routes) as internal transfers

[dcitelecom]

My PBX has 11-digit Destinations (Inbound Routes) and 10-digit Extensions. If extension 1000 dials extension 5141234567 then the call is processed as an internal transfer. However, if extension 1000 dials Destination 15141234567 then the call is sent to an Outbound route and processed via an external gateway. Is there any way to avoid carrier charges and process these calls as internal transfers?

 

[hfoster]

Make sure your outbound route is last in the diaplans, order 901+, then the local_extension dialplan will capture the call from the 'user_exists' condition.

 

[dcitelecom]

Thanks but that did not work. The 'user_exists' condition probably looks only at extensions, not inbound routes.

 

[hfoster]

Oh sorry, yeh. Brainfart. They're in the public context.

If you can match the range with regex, you could probably transfer:
<action application="transfer" data="$1 XML public"/>

I can't think of any clever ways of doing it myself.

 

[dcitelecom]

Yes. That's what I did but I was hoping there is a better way. I created an internal outbound route (order 50) with regex ^1(\d{10})$ that matches my 11-digit Destinations. Now every outbound call checks the internal route first and transfers the call internally if there is a match. It works quite well and the regex expression can be modified to match whatever number plan convention is used in the Destinations.