[Asterisk-Users] Semi-OT: porting numbers away

[Jerry Jones]

Of course most carriers these days charge extra per call path. So how  
many simultaneous calls do you really need up?
On Dec 30, 2005, at 1:55 PM, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 21:38 +0200, Bogdan Moldovan wrote:
>> Depending on the forward type. You could put conditional or un- 
>> conditional
>> forwarding. As far as I know some telcos are placing restrictions on
>> conditional forwarding (and that depends on a case by case basis)  
>> but for
>> un-conditional forwarding I don't see why there could be a  
>> limitation.
>
> Well they generally like limitations because people sometimes show
> questionable judgement.  A forwards to B, B forwards to A.  Call comes
> in on either and you rapidly exhaust capacity.  Sometimes its just  
> lack
> of knowledge that leads people to do this sometimes they just dont  
> think
> beforehand.
>
> For reasons like these they like to put caps on it, but you can
> generally get the caps high enough that if you are forwarding from an
> analog line it shouldnt matter (ie if you need 1000 forwards you  
> need to
> reevaluate how you are doing this).
>
>
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