[Asterisk-biz] Re: Inexpensive 800 providers

[David Josephson]

>Can you all suggest inexpensive (< 2.5cents/min, < $1 per month/number) 
>800 origination providers that support IAX?
>

We are trying to use LiveVoip. Their rates are good - 99 cents a month 
per number, 1.3 cents a minute for US tollfree incoming. IAX works and 
passes CLID (but they do not resolve CNAM for you). They use straight 
g.711 or g.729 codecs.  I don't know how they deal with the payphone 
surcharge. They are having serious capacity issues and don't deliver a 
usable service yet. Two major problems from the beginning: extremely 
choppy outgoing audio (about 15% packet loss and out-of-sequence 
packets) and they do not pass call progress (ringback) tones to the 
caller due to not cutting through the RTP audio path until answer 
supervision is returned. Their customer service has been slow, today 
they say they will switch our number to an alternate server to fix the 
problem.  I just now registered with their new trouble ticket reporting 
system, we'll see if they can make this a usable service. They are 
clearly building a business while we wait; if they can streamline it so 
they can make money at these rates and still have big enough pipes to 
stuff all these bits through, it will be good value.