Port mobile number to SIP trunk

Can anyone think of a way I can get calls to my mobile number delivered
to me over a SIP trunk, without paying for a divert? Sipgate's response
to the question is a terse negative.

 

Sorry, should have been a bit clearer in my OP; the number is a personal
mobile number on O2 PAYG. In an ideal world, I could port it to Sipgate
and it would ring the SIP client on my [work] E61 that I carry around
with me. SMS would arrive via some hitherto-unknown SMS > SMTP service.

Appreciate the lateral thinking, although £150 would buy a lot of
diverted minutes.

 

I'm fairly sure that porting Mobile numbers to anything other than
another mobile operator is simply not allowed (or do-able)

AIUI, it's for sending TXT messages only, rather than for general voice.
(And if a portech box @ £150 is expensive, then 3 months of these guys
will be even more expensive)

Now, there there something you can add into Asterisk called chan_bluetooth
(or chan_mobile, I've forgotten, and it's late) that's supposed to let
you use a mobile phone via a bluetooth adapter from your own Asterisk box,
so that might be a way forward, but it's not anything I've looked at.

(And bluetooth under Linux has always looked like a bit of a black art
to me, but admittedly I've not looked for many moons!)

And it does seem like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut...

Gordon

 

Now if this were a service that lots of poeple wanted, I know an outfit
that may be willing to offer a SIM hosting service to plumb into SIP
trunks, but the payback time would be long, so minimum contract times
would apply and a monthly fee...

The down-side is that you "lose" the SIM card for the duration...

Might be an interesting idea for people wanting the travel though...

Gordon

 

I thought they only did it for SMS.

I think the only way at the moment is to put the SIM in a gateway of
some description.


Having virtual mobile numbers is something not possible at the moment.
At least I don't know a way, and I have some customers who want it.

But who know what might happen when the low power GSM guys get operating
properly.

Tim

 

Orange used to (still do?) allow free call diverts to geographic
numbers. The catch was that you had to do it with a short code rather
than from the phone itself.

Chris

 

Hi Guys,

I'm afraid us folks at aql can only grab a mobile number and intercept
the SMS part. The best way to get your mobile on a SIP trunk without
paying for the divert is to

1) find a tariff for that number that has free calls to landlines or
to a particular landline number
2) buy a sip trunk with a geographic (landline) number

and you're up and running...

hope this helps

very best,

Adam

 

Yes, they still do it for business customers. But the snag is that you
can only set it up from the phone itself (or a phone) and not with a
short code.

It's set up on a couple of our phones, but not used it for a while.
[pause to check] Yes, it is still there. Dial 330 to change settings, or
07973100330 from any phone.

Excellent feature, which I appreciate having even though I hardly ever
switch it on.

 

Can't remember I think I used it once or twice several years ago,
but the brand name and short code has long since slipped my mind

Chris

 

The Asterisk box has a dongle in it and I have a spare 6310i, so I think
I'll give it a go.

 

It would be nice if chan-mobile.org mentioned this bug in the "Installing
chan-mobile" section:

http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12015

Right now, stupidly enough, I'm trying to figure out what PIN Asterisk
[or is it the underlying Bluetooth subsystem?] is asking for when
Asterisk starts.

 

Got there in the end. Basically, if you're not running X on your phone
system, you'll need to compile a bluetooth passkey-agent. Helpfully
enough, there won't be any entry about this in the logs unless you turn
on debugging. There won't be any logging about the obsolete options
you've put in the config file, either.

The mechanism for manually specifying PINs has been removed ["The old
infrastructure /etc/bluetooth/passkey has been removed since the agent is
supposed to be started by a user session. It is not meant to be system-
wide."] This page explains how to do it:

http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/debian/Error_Messages.html

 

Seems to work. Need to Answer() before Dial()ing, apparently. Getting one-
way audio at the moment, feels like I'm 95% of the way there