Update / Change to UK mobile dial peers

If you're like me and in the UK and running CCME or Unity you will probably have something like this as a dial peer for UK mobiles:

destination-pattern 07[7-9]........

Seems to work well yes? And with fixed mobile digit lengths no need for a ]T or pressing # to dial.

Well I have just had a call from a user with trouble dialling a mobile number back using CCME 4.1, seems that some *newer* UK mobiles networks have issued 075xx number ranges to customers. The "default" style of the UK mobile dial peer will as you can see above no longer work.

We updated his and a few others to:

destination-pattern 07[5-9]........

I hope this helps anyone who has seen similar issues or is about to do a CCME / Unity for UK users.

On a similar note older style kickback numbers (0845 etc) have been given 0330 and 0303 as replacements for UK businesses and local official users. You might want to add those to your UK dial plan if you don't have something that covers them now. They all seem to be 03XXXXXXXXX format for now.

As a FYI the calls to a 03 number cost the same as a "local" call not a "lo-call" which the old 0845s were. You will also find that a lot of mobile contracts include 03s in the included minuets.

Regards,

Steve