[asterisk-users] les.net losing DID's

[Alex Robar]

One of the things that we've done is get a standard PSTN line in place that
rings down to the VoIP lines. In smaller shops there's a single copper line,
in larger shops they might have a T1/PRI. It's obviously more expensive than
pure VoIP lines, but the stability of the number is solid; You know that
number isn't going away. If you have to change the number that your inbound
rings down to because your VoIP DID just disappeared, then so be it. Pay the
fee to your telco and make the change if that happens. But at least you know
that one number you have that you've published everywhere isn't going away
anytime soon.

We originally found our incumbent very resistant to this type of ring
strategy (they didn't want to let the call roll over to a number that wasn't
theirs), so we moved to using CLECs. Recently we've found that the incumbent
has allowed us to do this on certain line types too... So much the better
from a stability perspective.

AR

On 8/8/07, Jon Pounder <JonP at inline.net> wrote:
>
> Quoting Mail list <asteriskmaillist at gmail.com>:
>
> In general how painful has this sort of thing been to people so far ?
>
> I am pretty hesitant to put any sort of number like that on
> letterhead, website etc., when there might be doubt about having it
> long term when its provided by a small company. It seems you do voip
> to save money but to have long term stability you have to get a number
> from a large company and the savings disappear, or the terms are
> restrictive to use, or some other negative, and then you end up doing
> nothing.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Yes they are co-operating to port DID to another provider and they have
> > given time till august 23 so DID will continue to work till then  but
> they
> > are not providing any substitute DID though ( i dont expect that ) but
> > atleast they should partially refund amount for remaining days ( i dont
> > expect that either :P ) .
> >
> > On 09/08/2007, Stephen Bosch <posting at vodacomm.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> Mail list wrote:
> >> > Just got mail from them saying my NY DID will be deactivated in few
> days
> >> > . Funny thing is their site is still showing orderable DID's of  same
> >> > area code . Anybody else got this ?
> >>
> >> Wow. That is totally unacceptable.
> >>
> >> Are they going to give you the option of porting the DID?
> >>
> >> -Stephen-
> >>
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