[Asterisk-biz] Bounty for a residential number port for my asterisk service

Mon May 16 11:18:23 MST 2005

Get a Soft phone account from vonage, and set a call forward busy on this line

it will cost you 10$ only and then u can register the soft account on your asterisk box.

you can also ask them to swap the numbers for you, and your softphone becomes your 
primary account.

you can have concurrent calls on it using vonage.

I already do it, and yes it can be done, and yes it works.

I hope this helps

You can Pay me with kind words.

Rehan

> What I'm looking for is somebody who can port my home phone 
> (925-968-0766) to their VoIP service in such a way that is suitable for 
> use from my home Asterisk box.
> 
> The catch is that it was once an SBC number, and was ported to Vonage a 
> bit over a year ago.  When I last was able to look it up, it seems it 
> is connected to Focal right now.
> 
> Given that we have an Asterisk box at home, my wife and I find ourselves 
> on the phone concurrently an uncanny regularity.  We don't actually use 
> it that many minutes, but we seem to be (un)lucky to manage to both 
> want to use it at the same time.
> 
> There seem to be no shortage of VoIP providers who can port the number, 
> but want me to use a locked ATA (bleah, I've already got that with 
> vonage, no thanks) or a restricted residential plan.  These all seem to 
> be focused on the "unlimited" plans (which actually have limits, 
> bleah!) and try to build in ways to stop abuse, like put session limits 
> in place, try to define what "residential" usage looks like and cut you 
> off if your call patterns stop looking residential.
> 
> What I actually want is something that allows for concurrent use on an 
> occasional basis.  If that means paying by the minute etc, then so be 
> it.  Actually that tends to work out better for us anyway because we 
> don't use that many minutes.  I'd be just as happy with a base plan 
> that charged extra for time on additional concurrent sessions, or just 
> about anything within reason.  Just so long as it isn't a 'business 
> plan' that assumes I'm going to be making thousands and thousands of 
> minutes of calls and prices accordingly.  I need concurrency, not 
> minutes.
> 
> There seem to be no real shortage of VoIP providers who allow concurrent 
> use, but don't seem to be able to port my particular number.  I don't 
> know if this is because this particular switch (DAVLCA13) is poorly 
> serviced or because Vonage/Focal has it locked or something.  (BTW, I'd 
> love to find out if that is the case)
> 
> I'd be happy with a plan that looked something like these:
> * simply pay by the minute, for the DID and for any special services 
> [like doing an LNP port].  Kind of like voicepulse connect's no-frills 
> wholesale service (except they dont do LNP), or teliax.com's 
> pay-as-you-go service (except they don't seem to be able to port my 
> number).
> * one of the typical monthly residential plans, providing they dont care 
> too much about occasional concurrent sessions that stay *well* within 
> the expected monthly minute range for a home
> or even:
> * one of the typical monthly residential plans, so long as it allows for 
> concurrent use or has a way of charging reasonable rates for concurrent 
> sessions instead of blocking a call
> 
> I'm happy with either SIP or IAX2, with a preference for IAX2 as long as 
> it is reliable.
> 
> Anyway, if you're a VoIP provider and can provide a reliable no-frills 
> residential service that has provision for concurrent service, see if 
> you can port my number above.  I'm offering an initial $500 bounty on 
> top of regular new account costs for the first provider who can do what 
> I want.
> 
> (This might seem odd for a residential user to care about this sort of 
> thing, but its become a matter of principle.  I love teliax's 
> pay-as-you-go service, but they just told me that they can't port 
> my !&@#^%!&@# home number!)
> -- 
> Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com
> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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