[asterisk-users] Voxbone numbers

[Gordon Henderson]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, devr devr wrote:

> thanks for your reply
>
> This is the details I get
>
> Locality
> Alloa, Clackmannanshire

An intersting place... I spent my youth in a small town near there. (Not 
that Alloa is a particularly big town to start with!) Central Scotland. 
Full of history and places with funny names ;-)

An odd place to pick, but maybe whoever registered it, just picked one at 
random in the A's.. (or maybe they live there!)

> My query now is willl all voxbone numbers show up as the operator as 
> Voxbone SA as above. I wanted to find out who the service provider is on 
> some numbers, I suspected the service to be voxbone but the operator 
> shows as other companies.

Then it's probably other companies. There are dozens (100's?) in the UK 
who can offer VoIP provisioned DIDs - some directly like Voxbone and some 
via resellers (like me) who resell numbers from the upper-level 
suppliers... (So if you were to do a lookup on a number that I'd 
allocated, the 'company' name you'd get back would be me, it would be the 
wholesaler I'd obtained it from)

However what you can't easilly tell right now is who's handling the number 
if it's been ported - bit of a PITA right now.

> My idea on how voxbone works is that voxobone is a intermediatary 
> enabler with the actual hardware with third parties in which case the 
> operator will show as the hardware owner. Is this acuratrate?

AIUI, Voxbone owns the hardware (and network) that plumbs into the PSTN at 
one end and provides a VoIP gateway at the other end, and obtained a 
number allocation from Ofcom. So from a UK point of view, they're at the 
same level as BT, Virgin, C&W, Energis, Magrathea, Gamma, and dozens 
(100's?) more who've done the same thing.

Gordon