[asterisk-users] What are the various models of DID providers

[Fred Posner]

I'm really liking Flowroute right now and have switched most of my  
did's to them. As with many of the providers lately, they are pre- 
pay... but the site is nice and payments move quickly. What I really  
like about Flowroute is the no-minimum, diversity of plans, cost, and  
unlimited channel support. For example, on a line I have that's  
residential, I use their 6.95 unlimited incoming 2 channel plan... on  
some business lines where I might need channel flexibility, I use  
unlimited channel 1.2cents/min incoming. Outbound is around less than  
1c/m for USA and pretty decent prices throughout.

I had been using Voicepulse, but suffered more downtime last year than  
I hoped and found that support was a little hard to get a hold of when  
issues occur.

Fred Posner
fred at teamforrest.com

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On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:29 AM, randulo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Inspired by a recent rant about one particular provider, I am getting
> very curious about something I've never mastered. I'd like someone to
> explain this here or at least post a link or two that can educate me
> and probably countless others who have no knowledge in this area. I'm
> sure there are several of you reading this that know all about the
> subject.
>
> What are the various business models of these providers, in particular
> where are they on the food chain of the DID or trunks they offer?
>
> For example, I have accounts with several well-known providers of SIP,
> IAX trunks, hosted pbx and DID. Each of these is located in a
> different area, and I would assume they have different peering and
> rates they pay to their upstreams. Without naming names, could someone
> tackle this? It might help people know what they are getting into when
> the open an account.
>
> What are the best *types* of companies for each category: asterisk
> testing and home use, small business, larger business, General
> Motors...
>
> tia,
>
> /r
>