Escalate to the PUC and ETSBs.
Unfortunately, with companies like that, honey doesn't work. You need vinegar.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest Internet Exchange
http://www.midwest-ix.com
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From:
Hello,
Happy New Year everyone.
I recently became aware of the fact that banks (and financial institutions)
define any business that merely mentions the word VoIP as restricted.
Meaning they would not allow such a business to work with them.
As if VoIP is some kind of an illegal substance.
I am
Hi,
You might want to say which country, as banking regulations will vary
from country to country.
There is a lot of fraud in telecoms, but I've usually seen this come out
in terms of delayed settlement for card transactions and such. (but
I've not seen this for years)
And remember that
Hello,
Yes, I noticed that as well during communication with financial services.
Usually, the term VoIP only refers to e.g., handling of customer calls. I can
imagine one reason is the high number of complaints and chargebacks that some
VoIP customer service providers have for some reasons.
I'm not aware of some VoIP banking issue in the US, but you didn't specify
the country. I've never heard of Wise. But I don't think "VoIP" is an
industry, category, or business type. We always choose "telecom" as the
type. Paypal and Amex recently made a change where if you choose telecom
as
It appears that Carlos Alvarez said:
>
>I'm not aware of some VoIP banking issue in the US, but you didn't specify
>the country. I've never heard of Wise.
It's what used to be called Transferwise. They were originally a FX provider
but now they provide multi-currency accounts which look a
Thanks again everyone.
I ended up going with bulkvs.com.
They answered the phone when I called, didn't have voicemail saying they
were out for Christmas and would be back 2 days ago, their API made it
pretty simple to load ~270 phone numbers in a matter of minutes, and the
'922' test number
Carlos,
The country is the US of course. I did not know that this list has people
from other countries.
The problem is not what category you choose but it is what THEY CHOOSE FOR
YOU.
Just by looking at the website, they decide that you are a VoIP company and
your account may be immediately
