Well, first you need to have to be connected (TDM or better IP handoff) to a carrier who can route all incoming calls to you. Then you need to simply purchase DIDs from them which will be handed off to you via TDM or IP (SIP or H323). It's pretty straight forward. These carriers will then charge you for "something". This is in some cases a per minute fee (really unfortunate) or a bandwidth charge for the interconnect. Something like "virtual" T1 for example if you don't have physical links with them. I can't tell you names in combination with rates without NDA but it's easy to find out - Look for carriers with a large footprint in the US (rate center access) or search for "inbound DID block" or things like that. There are only a handful carriers you can find and they are hard to miss. If you don't need 1000 DIDs per city or even rate center you should use people who accumulate traffic like DIDx, Voxbone or others. You sure can't buy 1000 DIDs in a block spread over the nation. It has to be in one rate center or in some cases one city. For most large carriers 1000 numbers is close to nothing.
Nikolai http://www.remwave.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:45 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Unlimited inbound DIDs for: 337, 225, 504 area codes? Nikolai, If I may show my ignorance here, who can I talk to about buying a block of 1000 numbers? Thanks, Adam > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ --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
