[asterisk-biz] Forward-only DID?

[VoIP Street]

Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> 	AFAICT, virtualphoneline.com charges per minute, $0.04:min in my case.
> Does someone offer one of these DIDs, maybe by the "failover" method
> that VoIPstreet mentioned, that does not charge per minute, but just per
> month(/week/day/year), or even per call? Otherwise my per-minute rate of
> the call increases, even doubles or worse. I don't want my call voice
> data routed through the DID vendor, just the initial call connection,
> unless somehow I can get these DID calls *not* to also charge me through
> the mobile telco on the same call.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 11:36 -0700, Rehan AllahWala wrote:
>> You can use www.virtualphoneline.com for this
>>
>>
>>
>>> Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
>>>> 	I have two (US) mobile phones, each with their own phone#. I want to
>>>> discard one phone, but keep its phone#, pointed to the phone I keep. The
>>>> keeper phone will ring when the pointer phone# is dialed. I want to pay
>>>> the minimum for that "pointer phone#", and any minutes consumed on a
>>>> call that arrived by it. Who will sell me this service?
>>> You can do this with a VoIP termination provider who offers fail-over to 
>>>   a phone number in the event your device can't be reached.
>>>
>>> We do not yet offer this but will soon.
>>>
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Matthew,

  The fail over method cost the provider money because they are now 
terminating the call to the PSTN, so it will likely cost you to do this.

You mentioned only having the initial connection through the DID 
provider and not the call itself. This is similar to what a SIP reinvite 
can do but this would require the call to be SIP from end to end, not 
PSTN. Either way you look at it, a provider has to originate the call 
and push it somewhere for you. If they push the call to the PSTN, this 
cost money, even if they push it out over the Internet, it cost 
bandwidth and CPU time.

You could go with an all you can eat VoIP provider with forwarding 
capability to the PSTN. Vonage for example offers this for $24.99 plus 
all the fun/new charges you will have to pay thanks to the FCC.

So, if you want flat rate, you will likely be out $20-30/mo for the 
service in my opinion.

There may be some other solution out there, it seems there is always 
someone willing to give away their services for a while until they go 
under :)

Hope this helps you find what you are looking for.


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