The business reason is that Voicepulse and Nufone probably have a combination of other VOIP business relationships and direct T1's to long distance resellers and those are used to complete calls.
I have never experienced a case where a direct T1 to a long distance carrier could complete toll free calls. Not to say it doesn't exist, but I haven't seen it. Reason? When you dial a toll-free number there's an immediate database lookup prior to the call even starting to ring - to determine where (which carrier) to route that call. Local exchange carriers - whether ILEC or CLEC - are positioned and more importantly motivated to do so. They want all calls to complete from their dialtone. They want and are equipped to stay on top of and book the settlement income from all the other carriers they do business with. A long distance carrier provides you with a T1 channel directly into one of their switches. They have no incentive to maintain the realtime links to a database to facilitate calls that have to be handed off through some possibly non-existent interconnect to another carrier so that other carrier can bill their customer while that call free-loads on a channel in and out of their switching facilities. I bumped into the toll-free limitation with Nufone today when I was trying to call a bank. I don't live in the USA so I can't just walk to a payphone either - I had to locate a regular phone number of a bank branch and 'splain to them why I wanted to be transferred. They did so and it wasn't that painful. It didn't occur to me to add FWD to my config to complete such calls - but I will when I can figure out how to do it securely without giving anyone who dials my FWD number access across my Asterisk box to outbound calls through Nufone. Nufone and Voicepulse would have to maintain some number of trunks with an ILEC or CLEC to complete toll-free calls. -Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Isamar Maia Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dialing 800 numbers with VOIP Use fwd.pulver.com On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Matt Lawson wrote: > Hmm. Both Voicepulse and Nufone don't seem to be able to dial out 800 > numbers. Are 800 numbers treated differently somehow? Or is there a > "business reason" for disallowing them? It makes the ringing sound but > never connects. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
