Quoting Alex Robar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jon, > > No, not at all - Sorry, that's not what I meant. Indeed, a local extension > would be quite prohibitively expensive. > > What we tend to do with people who require out-of-area calling ability is > grab a toll free DID from a bit of a bigger or more stable provider. Here in > Ontario, Canada, we've had great success with Unlimitel for providing toll > free DIDs.
I have run across that name before as well - anyone else have any experience wth them ? (I am in ontario as well) > > AR > > On 8/8/07, Jon Pounder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Quoting Alex Robar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> surely you wouldn't do this where you are getting voip numbers so you >> can have "local numbers" in other areas. Having an analog or other >> rung through like that would be impossible in most cases and hugely >> expensive where actually possible. >> >> >> >> >> >> > One of the things that we've done is get a standard PSTN line in place >> that >> > rings down to the VoIP lines. In smaller shops there's a single copper >> line, >> > in larger shops they might have a T1/PRI. It's obviously more expensive >> than >> > pure VoIP lines, but the stability of the number is solid; You know that >> > number isn't going away. If you have to change the number that your >> inbound >> > rings down to because your VoIP DID just disappeared, then so be it. Pay >> the >> > fee to your telco and make the change if that happens. But at least you >> know >> > that one number you have that you've published everywhere isn't going >> away >> > anytime soon. >> > >> > We originally found our incumbent very resistant to this type of ring >> > strategy (they didn't want to let the call roll over to a number that >> wasn't >> > theirs), so we moved to using CLECs. Recently we've found that the >> incumbent >> > has allowed us to do this on certain line types too... So much the >> better >> > from a stability perspective. >> > >> > AR >> > >> > On 8/8/07, Jon Pounder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Quoting Mail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> >> In general how painful has this sort of thing been to people so far ? >> >> >> >> I am pretty hesitant to put any sort of number like that on >> >> letterhead, website etc., when there might be doubt about having it >> >> long term when its provided by a small company. It seems you do voip >> >> to save money but to have long term stability you have to get a number >> >> from a large company and the savings disappear, or the terms are >> >> restrictive to use, or some other negative, and then you end up doing >> >> nothing. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Yes they are co-operating to port DID to another provider and they >> have >> >> > given time till august 23 so DID will continue to work till then but >> >> they >> >> > are not providing any substitute DID though ( i dont expect that ) >> but >> >> > atleast they should partially refund amount for remaining days ( i >> dont >> >> > expect that either :P ) . >> >> > >> >> > On 09/08/2007, Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Mail list wrote: >> >> >> > Just got mail from them saying my NY DID will be deactivated in >> few >> >> days >> >> >> > . Funny thing is their site is still showing orderable DID's >> of same >> >> >> > area code . Anybody else got this ? >> >> >> >> >> >> Wow. That is totally unacceptable. >> >> >> >> >> >> Are they going to give you the option of porting the DID? >> >> >> >> >> >> -Stephen- >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- >> >> >> >> >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> >> >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> >> >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Jon Pounder >> >> >> >> _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ >> >> _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ >> >> _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ >> >> _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ >> >> >> >> >> >> Inline Internet Systems Inc. >> >> Thorold, Ontario, Canada >> >> >> >> Tools to Power Your e-Business Solutions >> >> www.inline.net >> >> www.ihtml.com >> >> www.ihtmlmerchant.com >> >> www.opayc.com >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- >> >> >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Alex Robar >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> >> >> >> Jon Pounder >> >> _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ >> _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ >> _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ >> _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ >> >> >> Inline Internet Systems Inc. >> Thorold, Ontario, Canada >> >> Tools to Power Your e-Business Solutions >> www.inline.net >> www.ihtml.com >> www.ihtmlmerchant.com >> www.opayc.com >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > > > > -- > Alex Robar > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jon Pounder _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ Inline Internet Systems Inc. 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