[asterisk-biz] Looking for a 1-800 DID provider and Canadian DIDs

[Bill Michaelson]

I for one would appreciate if you would not conflate "mom-and-pop" 
service providers with unreliable ones.  Small providers, allowing for 
obvious limitations, can be quite reliable.  The examples of poor 
performance you cite are not exclusively in the domain of small providers.

Michaël Gaudette wrote:

> I'd like the people who answer me to be able to provide the 
> following.  Please don't reply without at least checking if you can do 
> the following :
>  
> 1) 1-8xxx DIDs for continental North America with a reasonable price
> 2) Canadian DIDs including 514.  Bonus for 819, 418 and 450.
> 3) Good, reliable termination to US and Canada with CallerID being 
> defined by my system.
> 4) No-hassle business practice.  I need to be able to put up a DID in 
> a reasonable amount of time, with some sort of certainty that it will 
> happen.  If your second job is being a VoIP wholesaler and you happen 
> to put up the DIDs at night, whenever you're not busy playing video 
> games, DON'T ANSWER.  I need some stability, because my customers need 
> stability too.  I can't afford to have a guy dissapear from the radar 
> for a week without warning.
>  
> If you can at least do this, we can talk.  Contact me off-list at 
> michael at virtutel.ca <mailto:michael at virtutel.ca> or call me at (514) 
> 907-0849 x.705.
>  
> RANT: I have to say, there are too many mom-and-pop shops around and I 
> wouldn't mind some sort of scoringh system for providers.  I've been 
> leaving emails at some VoIP termination providers and not getting 
> calls back (for a week!), people with no phone numbers (that doesn't 
> look too serious people, especially in the VoIP business)...Time to 
> get serious.
>  
>  
> Mike
>  
>
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