When a Teams user forwards a call and the caller is a PSTN user, the Direct Routing SIP proxy generates a 181 Call is being forwarded provisional response to the caller.

Checked 2026-09-24

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Teams Phone Direct Routing
Subsystem
call forwarding
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-24
Checked
2026-09-24

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). Early media and ringback behavior: source note early-media-ringback-teams-181-forwarding. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/early-media-ringback-teams-181-forwarding

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-early-media-ringback-teams-181-forwarding,
  title  = {Early media and ringback behavior: source note early-media-ringback-teams-181-forwarding},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/early-media-ringback-teams-181-forwarding},
  note   = {Source note early-media-ringback-teams-181-forwarding, checked 2026-09-24}
}

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