On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:22, Chris A. Icide wrote: > On 10:41 AM 7/20/2004, Carmi Weinzweig wrote: > >I want many phone numbers so that each phone in my facility has its own > >phone number, but I really do not need that many simultaneous calls and > >it would be cost prohibitive to pay several dollars for each phone > >number. > > It's a different business plan. By going to a VoIP provider, you alleviate > the requirement for hardwware you lease or own to terminate PRI's at > multiple locations and distribute the calls to your end users. So, you > aren't paying for the physical T1 and associated hardware. The VoIP > providers are now incurring that cost and must recuperate it (unless they > are operatiing under the '90s dot com business plans in which recuperating > costs is not required - but you better be ready to turn up a new provider > on a moments notice if you are using one of these). So in the past if I am > understanding you, you would buy a PRI and pay some fee for the T1 itself, > as well as $0.01 to $0.10 per number assigned. In this case, you want to > not pay the T1 fee but still pay low per number rates. Maybe if you talked > to the providers they might come to a different pricing plan for you that > emulates the old way and gives you a better bang for the number? > > -Chris
My company may have the abilitly to provide exactly what you need. We service the Chicago area and if you email me back I am sure I could get you some price quotes. Just let me know what you would need in terms of DIDs, (708),(312),(773), etc.. If anyone else is interested shoot me an email. -- Josh Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Urban Communications (708)687-2090 http://www.urbancom.net/ _______________________________________________ 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