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.
<br><br>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.
<br><br>AR<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Pounder</b> <<a href="mailto:JonP@inline.net">JonP@inline.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quoting Mail list <<a href="mailto:asteriskmaillist@gmail.com">asteriskmaillist@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br>In general how painful has this sort of thing been to people so far ?<br><br>I am pretty hesitant to put any sort of number like that on
<br>letterhead, website etc., when there might be doubt about having it<br>long term when its provided by a small company. It seems you do voip<br>to save money but to have long term stability you have to get a number<br>
from a large company and the savings disappear, or the terms are<br>restrictive to use, or some other negative, and then you end up doing<br>nothing.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>> Yes they are co-operating to port DID to another provider and they have
<br>> given time till august 23 so DID will continue to work till then but they<br>> are not providing any substitute DID though ( i dont expect that ) but<br>> atleast they should partially refund amount for remaining days ( i dont
<br>> expect that either :P ) .<br>><br>> On 09/08/2007, Stephen Bosch <<a href="mailto:posting@vodacomm.ca">posting@vodacomm.ca</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Mail list wrote:<br>>> > Just got mail from them saying my NY DID will be deactivated in few days
<br>>> > . Funny thing is their site is still showing orderable DID's of same<br>>> > area code . Anybody else got this ?<br>>><br>>> Wow. That is totally unacceptable.<br>>><br>>> Are they going to give you the option of porting the DID?
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