[asterisk-users] DID from Direct from Telco

[James Sharp]

On 11/03/2011 09:16 PM, Nick Khamis wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> Thank you so much for your response. We just purchased an AudioCodes
> MP124 for this job. And setting
> up OpenSIPS as the proxy. As I mentioned earlier, Bell Canada is the
> Telco here in Toronto. As for other
> Telcos around the world, for example Bell South in the states, is it
> possible to have them route a block of
> Florida phone numbers to our FXS port here in Canada, or do we have to
> have a T1 gateway + SIP Proxy in Florida,
> routing the calls to our setup in Toronto and vice versa?

Routing Florida numbers up to Canada would get you charged LD per minute 
fees.  You can go with a provider like Level 3 or Global Crossing and 
they can hand you a T1 circuit that has DIDs from many different areas 
in the US.