[Asterisk-biz] Sipmedia, myphonecompany, Xchange Telecom

[Robert Webb]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Robert Webb
> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 1:51 PM
> To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Sipmedia, myphonecompany, Xchange Telecom
> 
> 
> Just as an FYI for everyone out there:
> 
> I have been doing a lot of research today on these three 
> companies as my service with MPC is down and also are the 
> websites for all three companies.
> 
> Seems that all three of these companies are owned by one 
> Charish, Avrohom (Bob).
> 
> Xchange Telecom was incorporated in Delaware and their main 
> office is/was located in Brooklyn, NY. They are a provider of 
> clec service in NJ and LD in many other countries. All 
> numbers to their office are dead with no ring at this time. 
> Cell numbers found on the net for employees advertising 
> services from this company go to viocemail.
> 
> Sipmedia and MPC are registered outof NJ to a residential 
> address in Lakewood. Calls to both numbers listed for for Mr. 
> Charish ring but no voicemail. Calls to any og the found 
> numbers for Sipmedia or MPC are dead.
> 
> Incoming Level3 numbers to their customers ring as all 
> circuits are busy at this time on a very scratchy voice message.
> 
> So it looks like Mr. Charish has closed shop for good. So any 
> of you that have numbers through them may want to look for a 
> new provider. At this point I will be to get my home phone 
> service back online. Luckily I just changed to them, did not 
> port a number, and can easily inform those few that I need 
> to. Sad thing is I just listed that number on a lot of 
> applications that I need to now try and update. 
> Fortunately I did list my cell number also on those same applications.
> 
> Can anyone comment on the difficulty of getting a Level3 
> number ported from one provider to another when the first 
> provider goes belly up??
> 
> Hope I am not too OT here....
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert Webb
> 


Well, MPC, Sipmedia and Xchange Telecom are back online. Apparently they
had a major failure at 8 PM EDT on Friday, October 21. Here is a post
that was made after they were getting service restored:

myPhoneCompany Bulletin

On Oct 21st at approximately 8:00 PM EST, myPhoneCompany experienced a
power failure in one of our inverters that feeds our data backbone with
ac power. When our backup battery power took over, one of the power
supplies in a Cisco backbone router was damaged and this cascaded into
other electrical systems. It took us almost twenty-four hours to replace
damaged hardware and to get our network back up without damaging other
core equipment.

We are still investigating the cause of the power surge that took out
some of our AC power, and are taking preventive measures to ensure the
continuity of our network.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience.

Bob Charish
COO
Sipmedia


I guess murphy's law kicked in on their backbone.