#Dialing USA from UK
Marisa,
I'm currently in the UK and need to be able to call home to CA. I subscribe to
a call-back service which allows me to connect into the USA domestic phone
network so I pay cheaper rates. It's a real money saver but the connection
sequence is unusual, I haven't been able to get Dialer set up to handle things
correctly, and I'm wearing out my fingers with all these numbers! I need
Dialer (4.0c) to work as follows:
1. Dial a local UK number;
2. Wait for a tone, then dial my card number followed by *;
3. Wait for a second tone, then dial 1 (US country code) followed by area code
followed by phone number followed by * (note: no need to dial int'l access
number).
I've tried using the calling card option in combination with setting the phone
number in Address Book to a dialing format of ",,,1<tel>*". I can get the
access number and the card number to dial correctly but I can't get Dialer to
wait for the second tone before dialing the phone number. Any suggestions?
Also, FYI: I've hard-coded a "1" for the US country code in the dialing format
because when I tried using "<country>" instead and set the country field in
Dialer's setup to "1", Dialer wouldn't dial the country code at all.
Thanks for your help.
–Sue