Setting up a Skyetel SIP trunk in FreePBX
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One thing to clarify here (I will also put this info in the first post).
By default, @Skyetel does not use the e164 standard for the inbound DID format, they use an 11 digit number. There is nothing wrong with this, but it makes it more work to "standardize" the displayed number to your users. I'm a huge fan of never showing the country code. So for US numbers that means stripping the 1.
FreePBX does not have anything built into their inbound dial plan code to strip a 1 fomr an 11 digit number. But they do have a process to strip the +1 from a number of any length. That is the
from-pstn-e164-uscontext I say to use in the guide.Fortunately, @Skyetel makes it very simple to send the DID in the e164 format.
Select your phone number(s) and click edit.
Right on the
Generaltab you will see SIP Format.
Click on the drop down and change it to
+1NXXNXXXXXXand click save.
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The benefit (to me) of setting this up like this means that your inbound routing is all just 10 digit numbers.
