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

[Jon Pounder]

Quoting Alex Robar <alex.robar at gmail.com>:

> Jon,
>
> No, not at all - Sorry, that's not what I meant. Indeed, a local extension
> would be quite prohibitively expensive.
>
> What we tend to do with people who require out-of-area calling ability is
> grab a toll free DID from a bit of a bigger or more stable provider. Here in
> Ontario, Canada, we've had great success with Unlimitel for providing toll
> free DIDs.

I have run across that name before as well - anyone else have any  
experience wth them ? (I am in ontario as well)

>
> AR
>
> On 8/8/07, Jon Pounder <JonP at inline.net> wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Alex Robar <alex.robar at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>> surely you wouldn't do this where you are getting voip numbers so you
>> can have "local numbers" in other areas. Having an analog or other
>> rung through like that would be impossible in most cases and hugely
>> expensive where actually possible.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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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>> >>
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