[Asterisk-Users] VoicePulse changes

[Jay Milk]

Welcome back to July.  How's the future?

There's one rather reliable, albeit not very popular provider with DIDs
in the Philly area:  Vonage.  Their softphone service works without
problems on my asterisk system, even allowing for multiple simultaneous
incoming calls, eliminating the need for hunting (but shh, don't
tell'em, or they may turn it off).  Pricing isn't too terrible either --
$10/monthly gets you 500 minutes (2c/minute), after that it's... Dunno,
never went over.  The only gotcha is that you can't get a softline
without an ATA-driven line, so unless you want to waste an FXO port on
them, you're in for $15/month for that (maybe use at home?).  They do
provide fail-over forwarding, called "Network Availability Number".

> -----Original Message-----
> From: daryl at introspect.net [mailto:daryl at introspect.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:24 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] VoicePulse changes
>
> Why, oh why is it so hard to find a stable DID in my area? 
> (Philly) IConnectHere is flaky, VoicePulse....well, we've 
> covered that, and NuFone, while rock solid and never giving 
> me any problems, doesn't have their non-Michigan DID's available yet.
> 
> And please....maybe I'm asking for too much, but any good DID 
> provider should be able to call forward your DID to whatever 
> number you choose on
> 1.) failure of their systems or 2.) loss of connectivity to 
> the remote, no matter who's fault it is.  This should be 
> automatic, seamless, and the forwarding number should be 
> changeable by the account holder on the fly.