[Asterisk-Users] Dialing 800 numbers with VOIP

[Tim Petlock]

The business reason is that Voicepulse and Nufone probably have a
combination of other VOIP business relationships and direct T1's to long
distance resellers and those are used to complete calls.

I have never experienced a case where a direct T1 to a long distance
carrier could complete toll free calls.  Not to say it doesn't exist,
but I haven't seen it.  Reason?  When you dial a toll-free number
there's an immediate database lookup prior to the call even starting to
ring - to determine where (which carrier) to route that call.

Local exchange carriers - whether ILEC or CLEC - are positioned and more
importantly motivated to do so.  They want all calls to complete from
their dialtone.  They want and are equipped to stay on top of and book
the settlement income from all the other carriers they do business with.

A long distance carrier provides you with a T1 channel directly into one
of their switches.  They have no incentive to maintain the realtime
links to a database to facilitate calls that have to be handed off
through some possibly non-existent interconnect to another carrier so
that other carrier can bill their customer while that call free-loads on
a channel in and out of their switching facilities.

I bumped into the toll-free limitation with Nufone today when I was
trying to call a bank.  I don't live in the USA so I can't just walk to
a payphone either - I had to locate a regular phone number of a bank
branch and 'splain to them why I wanted to be transferred.  They did so
and it wasn't that painful.

It didn't occur to me to add FWD to my config to complete such calls -
but I will when I can figure out how to do it securely without giving
anyone who dials my FWD number access across my Asterisk box to outbound
calls through Nufone.

Nufone and Voicepulse would have to maintain some number of trunks with
an ILEC or CLEC to complete toll-free calls.

-Tim

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:45 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dialing 800 numbers with VOIP


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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Matt Lawson wrote:

> Hmm.  Both Voicepulse and Nufone don't seem to be able to dial out 800
> numbers.  Are 800 numbers treated differently somehow?  Or is there a
> "business reason" for disallowing them?  It makes the ringing sound
but
> never connects.
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