Re: 1300 Number
Matt, We get 30-50+ calls a day from various local/national/mobiles and even on a plan like AllTel with free local, 5.7c long distance and 6.7 mobile (which it's the cheapest I could find on the market) we still incur some serious charges. Hosting my own Asterix means I'm using my bandwidth and it all depends on my connection to my office which I'm not very excited to do as 30% of my team is remote (Woolongong, Rio, India, Europe). Hosting my own Asterix in the cloud would cost me yet again few $ plus the maintenance costs/administration costs. If I "cost" my own time at just $100/h, 1h a month to maintain, install, review, upgrade, patch, reconfigure costs me more than a cloud hosted VirtualPBX. I'm done with self-hosting. The reason I want everything routed through Skype at the end of the day is because we are so spread and use so many devices that all have skype out of the box. Regards, Corneliu. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Matt wrote: > Serious question: what reason would you not want to host your own Asterisk > box? > > We have a 1300 number from Optus costing $24 per month (+calls) and pay > OnTheNet (http://www.onthenet.com.au/**personal-adsl/personal-** > prepaid-voip<http://www.onthenet.com.au/personal-adsl/personal-prepaid-voip>) > $20 for a prepaid VOIP credit that lasts a year (or 200 local/national > calls). Never been offline, very reliable and have POTS backup if needed). > > We use WXC (http://www.wxc.co.nz) for an NZ phone number, $15 or so per > month. There are too many US VOIP providers to mention. I don't have a UK > phone number so I don't know who to use there. > > We use pbxinaflash (pbxinaflash.com) Asterisk with a nice tailored > professional Australian voice prompter that we paid $150 for and it all > runs from a vmware image on any box (even runs on a raspberry pi if you > want) and took about 1 hour to set up. > > HTH Matthew > > > > > On 23/04/13 12:05, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Could I get some recommendations for hosting our 1300 number? >> At the moment I'm with AllTel and their cost is quite acceptable but I'm >> thinking of finding a cheaper provider. >> >> PS> Also, any recommendations for a VirtualPBX system? Preferably >> something cloud hosted, that can route numbers for US, AU, NZ, UK and also >> if possible work with Skype :) >> I'm testing Zaplee which I have to say it's quite nice. >> >> Thanks, >> Corneliu. >> > >
Re: 1300 Number
Serious question: what reason would you not want to host your own Asterisk box? We have a 1300 number from Optus costing $24 per month (+calls) and pay OnTheNet (http://www.onthenet.com.au/personal-adsl/personal-prepaid-voip) $20 for a prepaid VOIP credit that lasts a year (or 200 local/national calls). Never been offline, very reliable and have POTS backup if needed). We use WXC (http://www.wxc.co.nz) for an NZ phone number, $15 or so per month. There are too many US VOIP providers to mention. I don't have a UK phone number so I don't know who to use there. We use pbxinaflash (pbxinaflash.com) Asterisk with a nice tailored professional Australian voice prompter that we paid $150 for and it all runs from a vmware image on any box (even runs on a raspberry pi if you want) and took about 1 hour to set up. HTH Matthew On 23/04/13 12:05, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: Hi, Could I get some recommendations for hosting our 1300 number? At the moment I'm with AllTel and their cost is quite acceptable but I'm thinking of finding a cheaper provider. PS> Also, any recommendations for a VirtualPBX system? Preferably something cloud hosted, that can route numbers for US, AU, NZ, UK and also if possible work with Skype :) I'm testing Zaplee which I have to say it's quite nice. Thanks, Corneliu.
RE: 1300 Number
Hi Corneliu, We've had a good run with: <http://callstream.com.au/> http://callstream.com.au/ Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: <http://www.sqldownunder.com/> www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Corneliu I. Tusnea Sent: Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:06 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: 1300 Number Hi, Could I get some recommendations for hosting our 1300 number? At the moment I'm with AllTel and their cost is quite acceptable but I'm thinking of finding a cheaper provider. PS> Also, any recommendations for a VirtualPBX system? Preferably something cloud hosted, that can route numbers for US, AU, NZ, UK and also if possible work with Skype :) I'm testing Zaplee which I have to say it's quite nice. Thanks, Corneliu.
Re: 1300 Number
www.nehos.net is pretty good. Basic call routing capabilities, queue management and so on. Web UI is a bit buggy but once you work past that it is fire and forget. Only gripe is that there is no conf calling centre. David Connors da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: > Hi, > > Could I get some recommendations for hosting our 1300 number? > At the moment I'm with AllTel and their cost is quite acceptable but I'm > thinking of finding a cheaper provider. > > PS> Also, any recommendations for a VirtualPBX system? Preferably > something cloud hosted, that can route numbers for US, AU, NZ, UK and also > if possible work with Skype :) > I'm testing Zaplee which I have to say it's quite nice. > > Thanks, > Corneliu. >
1300 Number
Hi, Could I get some recommendations for hosting our 1300 number? At the moment I'm with AllTel and their cost is quite acceptable but I'm thinking of finding a cheaper provider. PS> Also, any recommendations for a VirtualPBX system? Preferably something cloud hosted, that can route numbers for US, AU, NZ, UK and also if possible work with Skype :) I'm testing Zaplee which I have to say it's quite nice. Thanks, Corneliu.
