[Asterisk-Users] Dialing 800 numbers with VOIP

[Tim Petlock]

Hm.  After seeing all the people who say it works, I thought - maybe I
forgot to dial 9 in front of the number and that's why the call failed.

So I looked up the Wells Fargo toll free number again and tried it.
Failed.  SIT tones and "We're sorry, your call did not go through.  Will
you please try your call again later?"  The recording has nothing at the
end that might give some clue who was generating it either.

Okay, I thought, maybe it's a regional number and that's why.  

Nope, for further testing I looked up toll free numbers that for sure
would be nationally dialable.  They fail exactly the same way.

Perhaps it's something in my Nufone account setup?  I don't know.  The
SIP and IAX debug messages on my console don't look appreciably
different from those where calls complete so I know the call is getting
there.

It's impossible for any recording to be generated on my * box because my
sound driver has yet to work, it's not coming from there.

I'm certainly not out to bash Nufone - I live in Uruguay and have a 64k
internet connection.  Vonage barely works because the codec they've
chosen and the speed I've bought don't match up.  (I imagine that it
would work better if I had a 128k connection - but 64k is USD$42 per
month and the providers prices increase exactly proportional to the
speed you want.)  There was about a 1.5 second delay in the other party
hearing what I was saying and only one person could talk at a time.
Using a different Cisco ATA to connect to * and then GSM over IAX to
Nufone sounds night and day different.  No delay, minimal distortion,
two-way conversation - this is good stuff.

-Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Greg
Boehnlein
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:50 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dialing 800 numbers with VOIP

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Tim Petlock wrote:


[ Long Explanation Deleted ]

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

I dial 800 numbers all the time from my Nufone account without problem. 
Hell, my DID through Nufone -IS- an 800 number!

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