Peter, Diffrent companys offer diffrent services. For example myPhoneCompany offers DID's for both inbound and outbound. Thier basid DID plan is $5.00 with unlimited incoming and 60 outgoing minutes. Each additional is $0.029. Or $10.00 a month with 500 outgoing and the same rates as above. Voipjet for instance only offers outbound termination at I believe $0.013. So if you were setting up a customer You would use myPhoneCompany for incoming and VoipJet for outgoing. Teliax I believe offers inbound (origination), outbound (termination) or both. You also may want more than one provider in case your primary one fails. There are many options that you can use. The best way is to mix and match. For instance one provider may be cheaper to the UK while another is cheaper to China. The best thing to start with is to order basic accounts from the diffrent providers. Look at the results that you get and go from there as to how you want to develop your system.
Regards, Dovid > do do everything, incoming, outgoing, real > phone number (DID ?) > Like I said, I am really new to the whole thing and > need some very basic > help. I know Linux very well but I am not a > telephony guy, alot of the > terminology to me is foreign. I would like to be > able to take my real > phone number that I use with Ma Bell and have it > come to my asterisk box > and take a message or forward if needed and I would > like to be able to > call from my asterisk box using that phone number > (at least for caller > id purpose). If you can lead me off with some > examples and/or providers > so I can accomplish this, I would be very greatful. > Thanks, Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users