[asterisk-biz] Seattle DID

[Mark]

Christopher,

I believe that ALL  North American DIDs are portable. I think with IP 
kall there is really little need to port away, unless of course you just 
have more money than brains (joking here, not intended personally), or 
knew that IPKall was going broke or something. Voxilla has a IPKall 
forum  . That may be an excellent place to get opinions of users.

Also having someone to yell at is still not a guarantee. I am a solid 
believer in the quality of the IPKall DIDs,, and I would not even think 
twice about doing business from one if I had a presence in the 
geographic area (they now also offer DIDs from Vancouver Washingon, I am 
just waiting for them to cross the Columbia River!). You should not make 
any judgements on the call quality from a Vonage or any other IP or cell 
phone. Use a fixed phone. Ask someone on this list to call if needed , 
but use POTS theree are just too many variables to make any solid judgement!

Mark

Christopher Bergström wrote:

> trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 19:10 +0200, Christopher Bergström wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Ariel Batista wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> You can get a free on from ipkall  for area code 206
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Most appreciated for this.  Free is always nice.  Is it going to be 
>>> stable and zero hassles though? Can anyone share any feedback on 
>>> ipkall?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   
>>
>>
>> generally ipkall (itltd.com owns em - a real phone company - or so I am
>> lead to believe) is stable.  If you route through FWD (their only option
>> long ago, sometime last year they allowed direct to you which is
>> generally better) then you have them+FWD outage problems.  Streamlining
>> the delivery cuts out at least 1 possible point of failure.
>>
>> I dont know if they are keeping up with demand or not, they are reliable
>> now, but if they dont keep ahead of everything they will eventually have
>> problems.  Only time will tell that :)
>>  
>>
> I'm having it forward to a pop in the UK and a couple friends have 
> done some test calls.  1st call I can't even describe what was wrong.  
> (Vonage customer)  (They could hear me crystal clear, but my end was 
> totally garbled.) I called them back and my route was great. 2nd test 
> was also a Vonage customer, but besides a little digitization it was 
> fine.  It'll be for light business use and one bad phone call is one 
> too many....
>
> Side note: David from Teliax emailed me and iirc there have been good 
> things said about Teliax.  Besides having someone to call and yell at 
> if my DID is down is there anything else I might be missing?  I'm 
> thinking the 2.5 cents inbound is well worth the sleep at night... 
> Feedback? (Could this number be ported away if an issue ever comes 
> up?? I'm thinking the simple answer is no.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> C.
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