We use voip.ms for all our long distance calling. We are in a situation where we have to pay for all long distance calls thru our PRI (around $.065).
As a test, I ran all of our calls thru voip.ms just to see how well it handled the volume - I had a few issues with DTMF - but call quality and reliability was acceptable. Here are our stats for the past 3 months - the only issue is if we have internet hickups (which does occasionally happen). All of our non-emergency 911 calls go out thru this as well. We use the newyork pop. [cid:[email protected]] [cid:[email protected]] Nathaniel Watkins IT Director Garrett County Government 203 South 4th Street, Room 210 Oakland, MD 21550 Telephone: 301-334-5001 Fax: 301-334-5021 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd Hodgen Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:12 PM To: 'Discussion list for users of sipXecs software' Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Favorite ITSP... sorry to beat a dead horse I would agree with Mike's assessment here. I've used VOIP.ms for almost three years now. They are okay, and certainly have improved over the years. They are much more reliable than they were several years ago. But, I don't sell them as a sip trunk solution to my customers. Having said that, today I still only use them with customers on a limited basis - emergency need for lines, International calling, etc. I use Broadvox extensively with my customers, and find their service for the most part to be very good, on their legacy network only though. I am currently looking at Simple Signal as well - a California based ITSP. And to be quite honest, due to the reduction in cost, I am more likely these days to recommend a PRI over SIP trunks for many customers since PRI is very cost effective now in our area. When you can get 23 trunks for $400 or less, with 200 DID, and a block of long distance, it's hard for these distant ITSP's to compete. There is some additional hardware expense with a gateway, but it is very hard to argue against the quality and reliability of PRI verses SIP trunks in my opinion. To add to the use of VOIP.ms - International calling is a great use for them. Since they are prepaid - you have a hard cutoff for your liability should you get hacked for international calls. I tend to turn off International calling with the ITSP's, and have a VOIP.ms trunk for International dialing - for $.99 a month, you can't really go wrong. Additionally, I've had times when a carrier didn't get their lines installed in time, and VOIP.ms can be provisioned with new phone numbers, etc. in minutes to work in a pinch, so they are great to have for many other purposes, and have been proven to be a real savior for some projects. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Picher Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:59 AM To: Discussion list for users of sipXecs software Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Favorite ITSP... sorry to beat a dead horse i like voip.ms<http://voip.ms> but they are a tier 2 or tier 3 player. if you're serious about sip look to a large player like l3, at&t, global crossing, etc. if you're less serious but it's still important check out your local clec's. in either case i'd recommend an ingate for compatibility as the major players will recognize it and have certified against it. On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I'm trying to make some recommendations to a company as to what ITSP to use. I've almost always been locked into Verizon. I wanted to see if Voip.ms was the overall favorite, or if it is something else. The only other non Verizon install I did was about 1.5 years ago. I used bandwidth.com<http://bandwidth.com> then ant this groups suggestion. That install has worked fine. I've seen some occasional gripes on this list recently about Voip.ms, so I wanted to get a fresh take on what others recommend. I need this to be a reliable carrier. The main office would have about 30 handsets, and then lots of smaller locations with 5 or 6. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matthew _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ -- Michael Picher eZuce Director of Technical Services O.978-296-1005 X2015 M.207-956-0262 @mpicher <http://twitter.com/mpicher> www.ezuce.com<http://www.ezuce.com> ________________________________ This message and any files transmitted with it are intended only for the individual(s) or entity named. 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