Dan, If you are given a US local number in the form of NXX-NXX-XXXX then you can be called from anywhere in the world meaning a person in France can call your US number like they would a Verizon landline in the US.
If you want incoming numbers from around the world, say you want a UK or France number, then most likely you will have to find a provider based in that location to give you service. Some US/Canada providers such as Les.nethave UK numbers. You will not be able to get QoS guarantees with a provider unless you get service from an ILEC or CLEC. What I mean by this is you can get QoS for your voice trunks if you by the data circuit from the same company. I think XO does this as well as VZN Business. However they will probably be priced way out of your price range. Elaborate on what your application is. Are you using it for home use, small office, or an office for 100+ people? I too recommend gafachi. I don't use them for inbound because of the weird pricing but I do use them for outbound when I need great quality. They do offer t38 support. I use Talklite for everyday use, their upstream provider is Level3 and provides excellent quality as well. I sometimes have DTMF problems with them but its rare. I do use them for inbound. The pricing is the same as icall for unlimited channels at 1.99 a month plus 1c per minute. They do not offer unlimited with restricted channels. I believe porting fees are $7 per number, but I'm not 100% sure of it. They also provide CNAM (Caller ID Name) for incoming numbers which is hard to come by. I don't think they offer t.38as they use Asterisk to switch calls. I think L3 does support T38. For International outbound I use Voipjet, Vitelity, les.net, and talklite depending on LCR. Faxing overseas is unreliable. If you are looking to push many 1,000s of minutes through a provider contact them to get better deals. Jared
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