[Asterisk-Users] Semi-OT: porting numbers away

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 15:41 -0600, Rich Adamson wrote:
> > > So use call forwarding from the Telco, forward it to a VoIP DID, if you lose
> > > the VoIP DID, change the forwarding to another number.
> > > 
> > 
> > I thought my local telco told me that if I were to do that, I would have 
> > to pay them LD charges for each call that came in to that number.
> > 
> > Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by forward here?
> 
> Your pstn line will be charge the long distance charge "if" you forward
> your local calls to an out of area number.

or have business service that pays per minute.  I worked for an ISP
almost a decade ago that had many residential lines with no services and
call forwarding enabled (total cost less than $10/mo) to use to increase
their dialup numbers.  They forwarded to the main dialup number in the
hunt group.  Largely they were placed at customer sites (in exchange for
discounted service - nondialup customers).  We had 99 forwards enabled,
and becuase they were residential lines local calling meant no
additional cost.  Not a very nice thing to do, but hey after 12 years in
business that isp is still only one county large.  Kinda tells you
something about that ...


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