Evan, As others have mentioned, thats pretty much how it works...
Your secondary question was who to use, and for that I think it really depends on the business purpose of the toll free number, and the existing telecom vendors that they have. There may be a cost savings in using the existing SIP provider. Or it might make more sense to go with a separate provider that could route to your SIP provider by default, but provide alternate routing in the case of an outage with your SIP service. Pretty much any telco company can provide this service, but the pricing is widely variant based on the tier of the telco and how much service you are buying. Other questions I might ask include: - What is the business impact if this toll free number is offline for a few minutes, or hours, or days. Correlate that to the contract with the carrier. - What is the expected call volume on this toll free service. If the call volume may be high, do you have enough capacity with your SIP provider? - Do you need international toll free service, or just domestic? -David On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Group, > > I need to register a toll free 800 number for a customer and am wondering > what the process for doing so would be and whether this should be purchased > through their SIP provider or another vendor. > > A quick google showed a lot of websites that will charge you money to > register phone numbers with them but you must also then pay them the per > minute fees for these calls. I'm not sure if this is what should be expected > or if I should be looking into other possibilities (flat fees, etc.). > > > If anybody has any experience in this area I'd appreciate your advice. > > > Thanks, > Evan > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
