I bought iPAQ 514 Voice Messenger phone recently. It successfully connected to our corporate IP PBX on CommuniGate Pro after a little SIP configuration, but I didn't like the default dial plan.
Most numbers in my phone book recorded in an international format with some Russian-style dashes and brackets, like +7 (495) 246-24-73. To dial such numbers standard dial plan has to be modified.
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Windows Mobile uses regular expressions to describe Calling Rules. Every Rule may has, besides Pattern, following attributes: Dial, Transfer, Display and Restrict, which restricts using this number in cellular network, VoIP or for SMS sending.
"IP address rules", "SIP URI rules" and "Only digits" may be left unchanged, they should work fine with any IP PBX.
"11-digits rules" and "10-digits rules" sections describe national calling rules. By default—USA. It's why they should be replaced according to a local standard (in Russia we use 8 prefix for long-distance dialing and 8-10 for international calls):
<!-- 11-digits rules -->
<rule pattern='7\s*-?\s*(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})(\s*[Xx]\s*\d+)?'
dial='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
display='(\1) \2-\3-\4'
transfer='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
/>
<rule pattern='7\s*-?\s*\((\d{3})\)\s*-?\s*(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})(\s*[Xx]\s*\d+)?'
dial='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
display='(\1) \2-\3-\4'
transfer='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
/>
<rule pattern='\+\s*7\s*-?\s*(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})(\s*[Xx]\s*\d+)?'
dial='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
display='(\1) \2-\3-\4'
transfer='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
/>
<rule pattern='\+\s*7\s*-?\s*\((\d{3})\)\s*-?\s*(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})(\s*[Xx]\s*\d+)?'
dial='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
display='(\1) \2-\3-\4'
transfer='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
/>
<!-- 10-digits rules -->
<rule pattern='(\d{3})\s*(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})(\s*[Xx]\s*\d+)?'
dial='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
display='(\1) \2-\3-\4'
transfer='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
/>
<rule pattern='\((\d{3})\)\s*(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})(\s*[Xx]\s*\d+)?'
dial='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
display='(\1) \2-\3-\4'
transfer='sip:8\1\2\3\4@$host$'
/>
The "7-digits rules" section contains local calling rules:
<rule pattern='(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{4})'
dial='sip:\1\2@$host$'
display='\1-\2'
transfer='sip:\1\2@$host$'
/>
<rule pattern='(\d{3})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})\s*-?\s*(\d{2})'
dial='sip:\1\2\3@$host$'
display='\1-\2-\3'
transfer='sip:\1\2\3@$host$'
/>
It's worth to add cellular-only rules (like network and emergency services) between "SIP URI" and "Only digits".
<!-- BeeLine Services -->
<rule pattern='(06\d+)'
display='\1'
restrict='VoIP'
/>
As a last rule I added universal rule for dialing international numbers with any delimiters (for ex. +44 552435657), they're prefixed with 8-10.
<!-- Universal Intl. pattern -->
<rule pattern='\+(\d+)\D*(\d*)\D*(\d*)\D*(\d*)\D*(\d*)\D*(\d*)'
dial='sip:810\1\2\3\4\5\6@$host$'
display='+\1 \2\3\4\5\6'
transfer='sip:810\1\2\3\4\5\6@$host$'
/>
Actually it could be the only dialplan change, but I wanted a nice format for local numbers ("like (ABC) XXX-XX-XX").
Dial plan can be copied to a phone in any way documented in the application notes (file can't be just copied), I used CAB provisioning format. Dial plan placed into _setup.xml file, which archived into CAB, copied onto phone and ran. To create CAB archive type cabarc n dialplan.cab _setup.xml. Here's my dial plan version.
There is strange problem with it installation. With .cpf extension (as it should be according to MS website) phone throws access restriction error. You need to rename file to .cab, install it, then rename to .cpf and run again—everything works.
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I have been using Windows client on my notebook and a Windows Mobile one on iPAQ 514—both successfully displayed my location. Symbian and iPhone should be supported in the future too.
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