[asterisk-biz] Inbound toll free did provider

[Michael Jerris]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Peter Beckman
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:28 AM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Inbound toll free did provider
> 
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Michael Jerris wrote:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-
> >> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Peter Beckman
> >> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:12 AM
> >> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> >> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Inbound toll free did provider
> >>
> >> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Mitul Limbani wrote:
> >>
> >>> Peter,
> >>>
> >>>>  TossableDigits.com
> >>>>  $2.99/month, unlimited channels, $0.08c per minute
> >>>
> >>> Is that 0.08 cents/min or 0.8 cents/min or 8 cents/min ?
> >>
> >>   Whoops.  $0.08 per minute, 8c/minute, no SIP device required,
> > forwards
> >> to
> >>   any number in the US/Canada.  We have 30+ Toll-Free DIDs
immediately
> >>   available.
> >>
> >
> > 8 cents seems a bit steep to me.  Check out Asterlink
> > (www.asterlink.com).
> 
>   It is higher than your wholesale DID via SIP VoIP model.  But we
forward
>   Toll Free and local numbers to other working numbers, leaving the
> SIP/VoIP
>   implementation out of the path to make immediate activation easier.
> It's
>   for the less technical folk who just want a number to ring a phone.
> 
>   It's simply a different model than most of the VoIP providers on
this
> list.
>   Tossable Digits is a Value-Added Reseller, and we charge accordingly
for
>   the benefit of having that added value.
> 

Asterlink does 2 cents per leg (inbound and outbound) so a toll free
call to sip is 2 cents a minute, forwarded to a did is 4 cents a minute.
This is all tdm, no sip involved.

Mike