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Originally Posted by emoci
Actually dial as *747-1747Number
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Correct!
And for the original poster (or anyone else reading this), the reason you have to dial this way, is that *747 is defined (in SIP Broker itself) as send the rest of the digits to SIPphone/Gizmo. But for some reason (known only to the people responsible for SIPphone's network), all calls on SIPphone/Gizmo's network have to start with 1747 before the "number".
So essentially what you get when you dial *7471747xxxxxxx, is SIP Broker strips off the *747 as a command to send 1747xxxxxxx to SIPphone/Gizmo (which SIPphone is happy with, as it is expecting 11-digit dialing on their network). Whereas when the OP tried *747xxxxxxx the call didn't go through, because that sent only 7-digits to SIPphone/Gizmo's network itself, and SIPphone's network doesn't handle 7 digit dialing (all dialing on the SIPphone/Gizmo network needs to be 11 digits long)...
NOTE:
One positive side-effect of this, is that you can also use the *747 SIP Broker code to dial some other SIPphone/Gizmo services that don't begin with 1747 (i.e. aren't normal "users"). For example, the 1222xxxxxxx numbers (on SIPphone's network) all lead to "conference rooms" (multi-person conference calls) you can dial/use. So if you wanted to reach the main SIPphone/Gizmo "welcome line" (i.e. conference room 0), you could dial *74712220000000 from a SIP Broker PSTN number.