I just went through an exercise of writing a Perl script called from my Asterisk dialplan to look at a list of area codes and exchanges to determine which ones are local (no or little cost) under my current Verizon plan. I route calls outside of my local limits to Gizmo. It works fine but when I called Verizon to change (lower) my service it was a bewildering spider web of rates structures just in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. It made me wonder why I send any of my calls to Verizon! I was able to cut my Verizon cost down by about half.
I wonder if any others are splitting calls like this or just biting the bullet and going 100% voip??? With Asterisk/Gizmo I have a local DID for $30/year plus I put $10 credit on callout last June and I still have $3 left. I prefer pay as you go rather than flat rate which at $20 or more a month would (for me) be a $150/year waste! When you have a Gizmo DID the callout CID is automatically the DID number. You can request a different number though as long as you have control of it. Doug _______________________________________________ --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