Jon,<br><br>No, not at all - Sorry, that's not what I meant. Indeed, a local extension would be quite prohibitively expensive.<br><br>What we tend to do with people who require out-of-area calling ability is grab a toll free DID from a bit of a bigger or more stable provider. Here in Ontario, Canada, we've had great success with Unlimitel for providing toll free DIDs.
<br><br>AR<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Pounder</b> <<a href="mailto:JonP@inline.net">JonP@inline.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quoting Alex Robar <<a href="mailto:alex.robar@gmail.com">alex.robar@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br><br>surely you wouldn't do this where you are getting voip numbers so you<br>can have "local numbers" in other areas. Having an analog or other
<br>rung through like that would be impossible in most cases and hugely<br>expensive where actually possible.<br><br><br><br><br><br>> One of the things that we've done is get a standard PSTN line in place that<br>
> rings down to the VoIP lines. In smaller shops there's a single copper line,<br>> in larger shops they might have a T1/PRI. It's obviously more expensive than<br>> pure VoIP lines, but the stability of the number is solid; You know that
<br>> number isn't going away. If you have to change the number that your inbound<br>> rings down to because your VoIP DID just disappeared, then so be it. Pay the<br>> fee to your telco and make the change if that happens. But at least you know
<br>> that one number you have that you've published everywhere isn't going away<br>> anytime soon.<br>><br>> We originally found our incumbent very resistant to this type of ring<br>> strategy (they didn't want to let the call roll over to a number that wasn't
<br>> theirs), so we moved to using CLECs. Recently we've found that the incumbent<br>> has allowed us to do this on certain line types too... So much the better<br>> from a stability perspective.<br>><br>
> AR<br>><br>> On 8/8/07, Jon Pounder <<a href="mailto:JonP@inline.net">JonP@inline.net</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Quoting Mail list <<a href="mailto:asteriskmaillist@gmail.com">asteriskmaillist@gmail.com
</a>>:<br>>><br>>> In general how painful has this sort of thing been to people so far ?<br>>><br>>> I am pretty hesitant to put any sort of number like that on<br>>> letterhead, website etc., when there might be doubt about having it
<br>>> long term when its provided by a small company. It seems you do voip<br>>> to save money but to have long term stability you have to get a number<br>>> from a large company and the savings disappear, or the terms are
<br>>> restrictive to use, or some other negative, and then you end up doing<br>>> nothing.<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> > Yes they are co-operating to port DID to another provider and they have
<br>>> > given time till august 23 so DID will continue to work till then but<br>>> they<br>>> > are not providing any substitute DID though ( i dont expect that ) but<br>>> > atleast they should partially refund amount for remaining days ( i dont
<br>>> > expect that either :P ) .<br>>> ><br>>> > On 09/08/2007, Stephen Bosch <<a href="mailto:posting@vodacomm.ca">posting@vodacomm.ca</a>> wrote:<br>>> >><br>>> >> Mail list wrote:
<br>>> >> > Just got mail from them saying my NY DID will be deactivated in few<br>>> days<br>>> >> > . Funny thing is their site is still showing orderable DID's of same<br>>> >> > area code . Anybody else got this ?
<br>>> >><br>>> >> Wow. That is totally unacceptable.<br>>> >><br>>> >> Are they going to give you the option of porting the DID?<br>>> >><br>>> >> -Stephen-
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