On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 05:35 -0500, Mark Phillips wrote: > In your opinion, would the migration to a VOIP provider save him money? > Could his 3 office phone numbers (one's an 800) be ported to the > provider? Which provider should I look at? I'd rather one that can do IAX2. >
asterlink.com can port tollfrees, I *think* their rate for porting is $45 but I may be wrong. They are 2 cents a minute and very reliable in my experience. As for the other numbers, it depends on whom you port to. If he is the actual customer from the lec that is providing the phone service then he should be able to port them if he is in the US. Many providers charge for inbound calls and/or a monthly fee for service. Selecting one that can port the numbers and not incur this problem may be an issue. You also dont have to get service from one provider, instead you can get one for tollfree, one for outbound and one for local inbound. You may find that the total bill may be less, although its a bit more work to setup and potentially more work to keep track of which bill is for what service. One thing I have found recently looking at a few customers phone bills to determine where they are spending money is that several of them are spending $50-60 a month of '411' calls. A recent customer of mine I mapped '411' to 800-free-411 to save them this cost. I additionally mapped them to use my outbound tollfree service so they dont take up channels from their outbound provider (even if the calls are at no cost you may have a maxchannels that you can use at any time). Sometimes its the little things that adds to the bill. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.sacaug.org/ Sacramento Asterisk Users Group
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