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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcel Eric Loiselle
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006
12:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users]
Opinions on the best wholesale origination/termproviders
On 10/31/06, Brad
Templeton < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been losing patience with my current provider, a small company
called Sellvoip. Their termination is good, and they are
asterisk based, but they are understaffed and have no concept
of customer service. So I'm shopping.
I am interested in the opinions of others on the providers they
work with.
Here are my criteria, roughly in order
a) Decent quality, low latency.
In particular, this means they probably tie into the
PSTN at
multiple points, definitely east and west coast and
also in
Europe. I
don't want a California caller calling California
to have to send their packets to the east coast and
back.
(This made me discard RNKVoIP, which was high on my
list)
b) Fair pricing. I've seen blended rates down to a penny, and
non-blended down to half/cent in the big city
Tier-1s. I
don't expect the lowest possible price but I don't want
to
see 100% markup either. For a blended rate,
let's see
under 1.5 cents to the USA
and Canada. (Canada is
actually
down to .8 cents at some providers now, others charge
more
for it.)
c) Origination, also at a fair price
Which seems to be about $1/month for DID in USA, $2 in
Canada,
and close to 1 cent/minute. But I can pay more
to get other factors. I guess I can go to
another firm
for origination outside the USA in a pinch.
d) Reliability very high. Duh.
e) Decent customer service. If things go down you fix them and
I can reach you to fix them. I don't need handholding,
I
know my tools, but I do need you to fix problems.
If you know your Asterisk, linux and SIP even better.
f) Decent automated interface.
So I can get DIDs, configure IPs, billing etc.
g) Static IP authentication
It's faster. Though dynamic IP registration as a backup
is
handy.
h) Global termination
I don't want to have to manage and support too many different
providers. That's work for me. So give me
good global
termination prices too. That knocked out termination.com/icall
Though if I can't get all I want, I guess I'll buy global from
one company and domestic from another.
i) No high minimums
I am just testing my software apps right now so I'm not
going to bill minutes until much later when they ship.
So I can't give you tons of minutes per month. I don't
mind prepaying.
j) SIP, and decently implemented. Asterisk/SER is fine.
Now we get to my "nice to have" list
o) IAX as well as SIP. Makes testing stuff easier.
o) DTMF via SIP-INFO.
This lets me have native bridge for the voice but still
hear the DTMFs at my server, which would be handy.
o) Origination worldwide
o) Toll free origination
o) Cheap toll free termination. (Why does this cost money anyway?)
o) Don't want E911 service now. Might want it in future.
Don't want to pay now.
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So here's what I have found that come close
sellvoip -- good quality, low latency, good
price. Online tools suck,
customer service nonexistent
rnkvoip -- most of what I want but east coast gateways
only. Good
customer service but som
unreliability in equipment
telcommone.net -- Looks fairy good so far. $2/DID in small
quantities, but comes down
eventually. Very good term prices.
Claims to enforce instate
calling prices. (Old world thinking)
termination.com
-- very good prices but USA
only
terravon -- 1.7 / minute.
trxtelecom -- offers free 800 termination, they claim,
and pay-you
origination in rural latas if
that's your style. (Great if
you expect most calls to come
from cell phones or other people
with bundled long distance
blended rates.)
unlimitel -- for canada
netiqsys.net -- no origination but good prices
Any views on these or other providers?
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