[Asterisk-Dev] Help with VOIP phone service provider such as Vonage

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Brian Capouch wrote:

> Michael J.Budiac, CPA wrote:
> > Greg Vance at Digium suggested that I pose this question via this list. 
> > 
> > I'm looking to see if anyone's setup Asterisk to use Vonage as a provider?
> > I'll have < 20 phones setup with Asterisk and around 8 phone lines needed.
> > Vonage is appealing given their flat monthly fee, we make a good number of
> > long distance calls. I'm not fixed on Vonage but would like to control long
> > distance costs. 
> > 
> 
> If you know your average "minute demand" it's pretty easy to see if the 
> flat rate type of structure comes out economically ahead of one based 
> upon cheap per-minute costs.
> 
> You can always get a bank of Vonage lines and hook them to asterisk via 
> X100P type interfaces.  It's a bit messy but it would work.
> 
> Better is to user a provider like Nufone, where you can have multiple 
> calls going out and coming in at the same time, and IMO the per-minute 
> basis is generally competitive economically with those who tout flat 
> rates--it's generally known that their unlimited plans do in fact have 
> upper limits on minutes.  You find out when you hit what they'll allow 
> when they cancel your service and tell you to find someone else.

I'll second the suggestion to use NuFone as their service is great once 
you get it going. Only problem is that I do not believe that NuFone 
provides Local numbers in markets outside of Michigan. You'll want to ask 
Jeremy on that one.

Others have reported good success with Packet 8, although I do not have 
any direct experience with them.

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