[asterisk-biz] Toll free origination from payphones

[Peter Beckman]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, andy at andyhorton.com wrote:

> Forgive me, I don't know how to append a post...
>
> Sorry for any confusion I caused.  This may clear things up:
>
> We provide 1+, 011+ long distance, Operator Services, Directory
> Assistance and the like to Payphone Service Providers (PSPs).
>
> We recently transitioned all of our office lines to VoIP and
> discovered that our carrier did not accept origination to our
> company's toll free number from payphones - for the reasons discussed
> - dial-around compensation to the PSP.  Many of our customers call in
> to our business from the payphones they own so this is an issue for us.
>
> We are more than happy to pay the additional per-call fee to cover the
> dial around compensation for calls that originate from payphones.
>
> Hopefully this clears things up.
>
> Thanks for the responses so far.

  I had a conversation with Vitelity about this a while back, they will
  enable it, but you have to pay the higher per-call fee for the TF
  origination, and it was a special request, so please ask them first!

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