[Asterisk-Users] VoIP dialtone?

[Mike Ciholas]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, John Todd wrote:

> At 3:20 PM -0500 8/20/03, Mike Ciholas wrote:
>
> >Are there VoIP dialtone providers?  That is, could I use only
> >my internet connection for voice calls and not have a separate
> >T1/POTS bank for that?
>
> >First question: Does such a thing exist?  Where?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >Second question: Does it work?  How well?
> 
> Works great.  I haven't made a long distance call on my PSTN
> line in months, and I spend pretty much all day on LD calls.

I guess my question was a little deeper than that.  Can I simply 
ditch the PTSN?  I see that toll free inbound and LD outbound can 
be handled, can they handle inbound and local, too?

Seems like we are very close to cutting the local phone company 
out of the loop!  That would be so nice as trying to talk them 
about provisioning the lines is quite a chore.

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