On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote: > Are you saying that if I got a number that was in my parents area code > then they could be making a "local" call to my Asterisk, which is > physically a 1000+ miles from them? Now that is cool.
See http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/DID+Service+Providers Setting up IAX has fewer potholes than SIP. If your Asterisk server "registers" with the provider you can skip all of the firewall and routing issues as well. You can have any number of PSTN numbers ring your Asterisk server. You can assign (in your dial plan) custom ring tones to each so you know if it is your "friends & family" number, your wife's business number, your "I'm looking for a job" number, etc. A lot of the "free" DIDs are in the middle of nowhere because of the funny FCC tariffs that say that the long distance carrier has to pay the rural telephone company "above market" rates for the call. That's how some of the cheesy, late-night cable TV chat services work. You can get DIDs in other countries as well. I have 5 in England so that when my wife is "home" she can call me or each of our kids with a "local" call. The numbers are registered to my Asterisk server in San Diego. When a call comes in, it dials (using Vitelity) the "real" cell numbers. -- Thanks in advance, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 _______________________________________________ -- 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