[asterisk-biz] USA PSTN termination via IAX or SIP

Sun May 21 21:56:05 MST 2006

With nikotel (www.nikotel.com) you can easily get USA at 0.01 flat. Even
without a commitment. And lower pricing with commitments.

Nikolai
(manek at nikotel.com)

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>    1. RE: termination pricing needed (Frank)
>    2. DID Provider via Asterisk (Abdul Lateef)
>    3. Re: India VoIP Gateway (Khurram S.)
>    4. RE: DID Provider via Asterisk (Alexander Lopez)
>    5. RE: DID Provider via Asterisk (Abdul Lateef)
>    6. RE: DID Provider via Asterisk (Alexander Lopez)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 15:01:42 -0400
> From: "Frank" <bureau at inmte.com>
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] termination pricing needed
> To: "'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'"
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> Level3  Account director himself..
> 
> Local Inbound:
> 
> .           3.5+ million minutes per month now or ramped over 3 months
> ($25,000 monthly commitment)
> 
> .           This is an inbound only product (calls flow from PSTN to IP)
> 
> .           SIP signaling must be used/(TCP or UDP)
> 
> .           G.711 or G.729A audio CODECs only
> 
> .           Level 3 Customer is running voice over IP application
> 
>  .          The Level 3 customer does not have to be a facilities based
> carrier but is required to have access to a Class 5 switch/Feature Server
> (IVR, SS, VoIP application - IVR, conference bridge, Media Server with voice
> application, IP enabled ACD or PBX)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of C F
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 2:17 PM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] termination pricing needed
> 
> It appears that some people have never tried that before, L3 will deal
> with you even if you  commit only for around 1M minutes at less than
> $0.01 per minute to top 20, and so will MCI. I have never dealt with
> Qwest so I cannot tell you about them. Last time I checked the
> montyly commit with L3 was $10K.
> 
> On 5/21/06, Frank <bureau at inmte.com> wrote:
>> Finally some one that thinks.
>> 
>> Of course for 100k I could get l3,qwest and one other in this setup...
>> 
>> That as said would take weeks to accomplish.
>> 
>> Anyhow thanks to all I found my provider.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
>> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jed Stafford
>> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 12:55 PM
>> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] termination pricing needed
>> 
>> Except that is not very many minutes for domestic.
>> Even if you consider a very high price average of
>> $0.01 per minute, that is only $30,000. The currentl
>> monthly commit for L3 is $50,000. On top of that you
>> would only get L3, vs. going with a true wholesale
>> company which would have commits with multiple major
>> carriers oftens get you the same or better price than
>> you could get in the door with, avoid months of
>> interop testing and deposits with various carriers as
>> well as a good LCR/failover. The overhead of dealing
>> with the politics of the carriers alone is often worth
>> going indirect as there are a lot of benefits of using
>> a reseller.
>> 
>> -Jed
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --- C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Overhead is only a problem because it costs money,
>>> if you are going to
>>> use ~3M minutes then you *will* be overpaying if you
>>> don't go directly
>>> to the big guys, which means that the overhead
>>> already paid out.
>>> BTW, I don't see any overhead in getting VoIP
>>> directly from the big
>>> guys (like L3).
>>> You can still use TDM with Asterisk and manage it
>>> remotely, if you
>>> think that TDM is too much of an overhead,  then you
>>> should try POTS
>>> for a few days, I think POTS is much more of an
>>> overhead.
>>> Perhaps your client should take on a new consultant
>>> that could handle
>>> the overhead.
>>> Again you are either lying here about something, or
>>> you are
>>> misrepresenting your client.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 5/20/06, Frank <bureau at inmte.com> wrote:
>>>> IT is for a client of mine.
>>>> 
>>>> We do not want to have the overhead of equipment
>>> for tdm etc etc
>>>> 
>>>> An Asterisk switch can be managed remotely and
>>> therefore a lot easier then
>>>> hardware .
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> We pay weekly or can prepay.
>>>> 
>>>> No problems there lol
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>>> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On
>>> Behalf Of C F
>>>> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 3:10 PM
>>>> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
>>> Discussion
>>>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] termination pricing
>>> needed
>>>> 
>>>> Am I the only one finding this hard to believe?
>>>> If you are going to use *and* pay for ~3Million
>>> minutes per month,
>>>> then why do you need this list? I can get you
>>> excellent pricing
>>>> (~$0.006 to top 20) *and* quality for both TDM and
>>> VoIP at this amount
>>>> of minuest per month, if you have a problem
>>> getting it, then I
>>>> understand that either you are lying, or you have
>>> a tendency of not
>>>> paying bills. I mean why else wont you do it on
>>> your own.
>>>> If you don't have the resources to do it on your
>>> own, hire someone
>>>> privatly that will set this up for you, there are
>>> plenty of
>>>> consultants around here that would be happy to set
>>> you up such a
>>>> thing, my self included.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/19/06, Frank <bureau at inmte.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> We need 100,000 minutes DAILY min termination
>>> pricing,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> We would prefer 6/6,  we have a good deal but
>>> open to offers.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ALL usa termination
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> We could do a test by tomorrow or Monday morning
>>> for a few 100's dollars
>>>> and
>>>>> see quality
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Frank
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:20:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Abdul Lateef <abdul_zu at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [asterisk-biz] DID Provider via Asterisk
> To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
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> Hi all, 
> 
> I have my asterisk server in USA. and i want to be a
> DID provider, not the reseller from any other
> provider. i need to connect my server via T1/E1 line,
> after that i can sell the DID to my customers, and
> they can route the DID where they want.
> 
> I do not have much information about DID, so i am not
> sure T1/E1 connection can help us to be DID provider.
> 
> Please give me some information and some USA telecom
> web site, who can provide us these connection?
> _________________
> Best Regards, 
> -----------------------
> Abdul Lateef 
> Nepal
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 09:29:34 +0500
> From: "Khurram S." <iphonica1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] India VoIP Gateway
> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
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> Can anyone from India tell me if it is legal to originate VoIP traffic from
> India through DIDs or tollfree numbers?
> 
> Regards,
> Khurram
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/21/06, Mitul Limbani <mitul at enterux.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> http://asterisk.pbx.in/node/71
>> 
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Mitul Limbani,
>> Founder & CEO,
>> Enterux Solutions,
>> The Enterprise Linux Company (TM),
>> www.enterux.com
>> 
>> Quoting Sahil Gupta <sgupta at voicevalley.com.au>:
>> 
>>> http://www.trai.gov.in
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sahil Gupta
>>> VoiceValley
>>> 
>>> On Sun, 21 May 2006, Abdul Lateef wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> I was looking some information, how to setup VoIP
>>>> Gateway in India for VoIP Call Termination.?
>>>> 
>>>> I did lot of google But i did not found any good
>>>> information. Some of my friend told me that you have
>>>> to pay Rs. 2,000000 to get the permission for Telecom
>>>> authurity of India.
>>>> 
>>>> Is it true, or i can take direct E1/T1 line from
>>>> BSNL/Relience etc.. without any Licence from telecom
>>>> Authurity?
>>>> 
>>>> I will be really very thank full for ur kind of reply
>>>> and information.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thank You
>>>> Abdul
>>>> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 00:40:50 -0400
> From: "Alexander Lopez" <Alex.Lopez at OpSys.com>
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] DID Provider via Asterisk
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> I PRI line would be preferred, As you could offer more 'services' to
> your customers. But a T1/E1 with DIDs will work fine also.
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-
>> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Abdul Lateef
>> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 12:21 AM
>> To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
>> Subject: [asterisk-biz] DID Provider via Asterisk
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have my asterisk server in USA. and i want to be a
>> DID provider, not the reseller from any other
>> provider. i need to connect my server via T1/E1 line,
>> after that i can sell the DID to my customers, and
>> they can route the DID where they want.
>> 
>> I do not have much information about DID, so i am not
>> sure T1/E1 connection can help us to be DID provider.
>> 
>> Please give me some information and some USA telecom
>> web site, who can provide us these connection?
>> _________________
>> Best Regards,
>> -----------------------
>> Abdul Lateef
>> Nepal
>> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:44:17 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Abdul Lateef <abdul_zu at yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] DID Provider via Asterisk
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
> Message-ID: <20060522044417.29506.qmail at web34505.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> Could you give me some PRI provider name or web site
> of USA.
> 
> 
> 
> --- Alexander Lopez <Alex.Lopez at OpSys.com> wrote:
> 
>> I PRI line would be preferred, As you could offer
>> more 'services' to
>> your customers. But a T1/E1 with DIDs will work fine
>> also.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
>> [mailto:asterisk-biz-
>>> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Abdul
>> Lateef
>>> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 12:21 AM
>>> To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
>>> Subject: [asterisk-biz] DID Provider via Asterisk
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I have my asterisk server in USA. and i want to be
>> a
>>> DID provider, not the reseller from any other
>>> provider. i need to connect my server via T1/E1
>> line,
>>> after that i can sell the DID to my customers, and
>>> they can route the DID where they want.
>>> 
>>> I do not have much information about DID, so i am
>> not
>>> sure T1/E1 connection can help us to be DID
>> provider.
>>> 
>>> Please give me some information and some USA
>> telecom
>>> web site, who can provide us these connection?
>>> _________________
>>> Best Regards,
>>> -----------------------
>>> Abdul Lateef
>>> Nepal
>>> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 00:49:19 -0400
> From: "Alexander Lopez" <Alex.Lopez at OpSys.com>
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] DID Provider via Asterisk
> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
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