I did not use them in the past nor our customers but their offer sounds pretty good. And it's very possible that it is legit. If they don't have to use TDM channels (that is physical T1 or T3 plugged into their servers) but have an IP handoff they can get very low rates if they have volume (which they might have with their offering). Why not? Sounds pretty good to me. DIDs itself are sold in 1000 blocks for $500 on time fee which is not even a good price. The rest is a question of call termination to VoIP. If you are using softswitches like REMWAVEs Terra or Freeswitch or something like that you can sure have 1000+ channels per box. Asterisk maybe a couple hundred as well. If you then offer 20 channels MAX per DID they (that company) can generate at least $1,000 revenue per server. It does make sense. Just my 2 cents here:-) If their service has good quality it's sure a company to watch. (they state 3600 rate centers on their website - that only leaves a couple options from where they get their DIDs - all of these options should provide high quality).
Nikolai http://www.remwave.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brent Vrieze Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:57 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Unlimited inbound DIDs for: 337, 225, 504 area codes? We have been using DIDForSale.com for a few months now and have had no problems (unlike our previous provider). They are very helpful in making sure our Asterisk system was working with theirs. They do not offer some services themselves like e-911 so maybe that is why they are less expensive, you have to get that on your own. They are very ala cart though which I like, you can set up a test number on your own through the web site too but only for incoming calls. There may be a couple of other things I don't like but I have to test them out first so I will not put them here. I don't want to sound like a shill but like I said above so far no problems. Mike wrote: > Perhaps its just me, but DIDForSale.com looks like a fake > company/scam. Does anyone else use them? What are your experiences? > > Why is appears to be fake or some sort of scam: > > 1. Significantly lower prices compared to the competition. 20 channels > with unlimited incoming minutes for $8.99/month? I can't see this being > sustained long term when the competition is more around the $20/month > for 1-2 channels. > > 2. No mailing address to be found on their website. > > 3. Spelling errors and invalid email addresses are found all over > their site. If they can't spell correctly do they have any hope of > providing reliable service? > > 4. Parent company doesn't even post a mailing address. > > 5. No phone number to call someone. A phone company without its own > phone number, hrmm... > > Perhaps I should rephrase my original question, are there any > legitimate providers with a good reputation that offer inbound only > channels/DIDs in the 337,225,504 area codes? > > Thanks. > > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:48:31 -0700 > Jai Rangi <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Mike, >> >> www.didforsale.com offer 20 channels per DID. >> >> -Jai >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Are there any providers out there that offer unlimited >>> inbound only channels/DIDs for the following area codes: >>> >>> 337 >>> 225 >>> 504 >>> >>> We need between 5-10 channels to start and 3 DIDs for those area >>> codes, potential to ramp up to 25-50 channels with other DIDs >>> around the US in the near future. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> Mike ([email protected]) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- >>> >>> asterisk-biz mailing list >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >>> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >>> >>> > > > -- Brent T. Vrieze CIM Automation Softare Engineer 507-216-0465 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
