<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Danny Nicholas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danny@debsinc.com">danny@debsinc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div><div class="im">[mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] On Behalf Of Leif Madsen<br>
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On 11-03-03 11:22 AM, Brent A. Torrenga wrote:<br>
> I am becoming frustrated with our current VOIP provider. Does anyone have<br>
> any suggestions for a provider that supports asterisk well and provides<br>
> solid service? Voip-info.org has a husge list of providers, but it is<br>
> impossible to tell the fly-by-night operations from the reputable<br>
providers.<br>
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I've had good luck with <a href="http://bandwidth.com" target="_blank">bandwidth.com</a> for a couple of customers running call<br>
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centers.<br>
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Leif.<br>
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</div>I'm happy so far with VoicePulse. Keep in mind, if you dig far enough,<br>
you'll find good and bad comments about any provider.<br>
<div><div></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I managed a decent size system pushing $40k/mo through VoicePulse. Most of it going to Uganda, Peru, and Fiji. The voice quality was never an issue except for VSAT or whatever.<br>
<br>My only complaint from years ago when I ditched them, through inheriting the new system is that they are constantly changing things that require user intervention. If you miss those emails, your phone system stops working.<br>
<br>If I wanted that I would hard code their IPs rather than using DNS. <br><br>Other than that, they had very good quality without any kind of direct link or real QoS. <br><br>Obviously, pushing that amount of traffic their way also got me same day replies from the CEO and if I really complained, and threatened to move the business, he jumped on a plane to come visit but I was gone to Iraq already.<br>
<br>Bandwidth.com is a bit pricey but great. <br><br>I try to negotiate out old paradigm terms that are not applicable to VoIP so much, such as channels. Sure, you can limit me to whatever number we agree upon, but I am not paying an MRC for them unless they are going to give me a layer 2 handoff.<br>
<br>Gafachi is good and pretty cheap too, I was bit surprised.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Steve T<br></div></div>