[asterisk-users] Opinions on the best wholesale origination/term providers

[Marcel Eric Loiselle]

Hi Brad,
I can confirm the service quality of unlimitel.
Have you look at www.les.net they provide both US and Canada DID.
I heard good feedback about them

On 10/31/06, Brad Templeton < brad+aster at templetons.com> wrote:
>
>
> I've been losing patience with my current provider, a small company
> called Sellvoip.  Their termination is good, and they are
> asterisk based, but they are understaffed and have no concept
> of customer service.  So I'm shopping.
>
> I am interested in the opinions of others on the providers they
> work with.
>
> Here are my criteria, roughly in order
>
> a) Decent quality, low latency.
>     In particular, this means they probably tie into the PSTN at
>     multiple points, definitely east and west coast and also in
>     Europe.  I don't want a California caller calling California
>     to have to send their packets to the east coast and back.
>
>     (This made me discard RNKVoIP, which was high on my list)
>
> b) Fair pricing.  I've seen blended rates down to a penny, and
>     non-blended down to half/cent in the big city Tier-1s.  I
>     don't expect the lowest possible price but I don't want to
>     see 100% markup either.   For a blended rate, let's see
>     under 1.5 cents to the USA and Canada.  (Canada is actually
>     down to .8 cents at some providers now, others charge more
>     for it.)
>
> c) Origination, also at a fair price
>     Which seems to be about $1/month for DID in USA, $2 in
>     Canada, and close to 1 cent/minute.  But I can pay more
>     to get other factors.  I guess I can go to another firm
>     for origination outside the USA in a pinch.
>
> d) Reliability very high.  Duh.
>
> e) Decent customer service.  If things go down you fix them and
>    I can reach you to fix them.  I don't need handholding, I
>    know my tools, but I do need you to fix problems.
>    If you know your Asterisk, linux and SIP even better.
>
> f) Decent automated interface.
>    So I can get DIDs, configure IPs, billing etc.
>
> g) Static IP authentication
>    It's faster.  Though dynamic IP registration as a backup is
>    handy.
>
> h) Global termination
>    I don't want to have to manage and support too many different
>    providers.  That's work for me.  So give me good global
>    termination prices too.   That knocked out termination.com/icall
>    Though if I can't get all I want, I guess I'll buy global from
>    one company and domestic from another.
>
> i) No high minimums
>    I am just testing my software apps right now so I'm not
>    going to bill minutes until much later when they ship.
>    So I can't give you tons of minutes per month.  I don't
>    mind prepaying.
>
> j) SIP, and decently implemented.  Asterisk/SER is fine.
>
> Now we get to my "nice to have" list
>
> o) IAX as well as SIP.   Makes testing stuff easier.
>
> o) DTMF via SIP-INFO.
>     This lets me have native bridge for the voice but still
>     hear the DTMFs at my server, which would be handy.
>
> o) Origination worldwide
>
> o) Toll free origination
>
> o) Cheap toll free termination.  (Why does this cost money anyway?)
>
> o) Don't want E911 service now.  Might want it in future.
>    Don't want to pay now.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> So here's what I have found that come close
>
>     sellvoip -- good quality, low latency, good price.  Online tools suck,
>
>         customer service nonexistent
>
>     rnkvoip -- most of what I want but east coast gateways only.  Good
>         customer service but som unreliability in equipment
>
>      telcommone.net -- Looks fairy good so far.  $2/DID in small
>         quantities, but comes down eventually.  Very good term prices.
>         Claims to enforce instate calling prices.  (Old world thinking)
>
>      termination.com -- very good prices but USA only
>
>     terravon -- 1.7 / minute.
>
>     trxtelecom -- offers free 800 termination, they claim, and pay-you
>         origination in rural latas if that's your style.  (Great if
>         you expect most calls to come from cell phones or other people
>         with bundled long distance blended rates.)
>
>     unlimitel -- for canada
>
>     netiqsys.net -- no origination but good prices
>
>
> Any views on these or other providers?
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Marcel Eric
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