[Asterisk-biz] DID service

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Jim Feniello wrote:

> Hi, i'm looking for some recommendations on did service.  These lines
> will be going into an Asterisk box.
>  We are a small company (7-10 employees) and my thought is that we get
> about 20 did numbers, and utilize a service that would provide 5 or more
> simultaneous channels (simultaneous calls).  Each person could have a
> direct number, but i shouldn't have to have an equivalent # of channels,
> right?  I can use asterisk to determine who's direct number was dialed
> and map it to that persons extension.  (utilizing ANI??).
We can do that. Our pricing is 2.50$ per DID plus 25$ per concurrent
channel, in your case, total bill will be 150$/month. Incoming calls are
free. The DIDs are from New York. For 2.2c/minute, we can do tollfree.

We can do numbers in series.

> I received a good response from jason at ipcomms.net, but just curious why i
> can't find any others that provide this type of service.
>  Seems to be good recommendations for Voicepulse Connect, but that's per
> line, with a max of 4 simultaneous calls per line, so i'd either have to
> buy a line per did, or limit incoming calls to my company to 4 using one
> did. In addition, when we expand, chances are i couldn't get a few more
> numbers in series of what i would already have gotten from them. Teliax
> is another big-time recommended service on this list, but at my
> calculations, $0.02 per minute adds up quick in an office environment.  
> I'm all for paying per minute outgoing, but seems like alot of incoming
> (including POTS) don't usually track per minute.
Yeah, 2c/minute is for tollfree numbers ;)

-alex