[asterisk-biz] Plonking Tier 1 SIP Providers?

2009-02-18 Thread Jacob Suter
Is there *ever* a legitimate reason to do this? I personally drop all calls from illegitimate CIDs (toll free #'s, area codes that don't exist, etc) After a 45 day logging period, we discovered exactly 100% of our 'toll free' caller ID calls were for unsolicited telemarketing. Of course, in

Re: [asterisk-biz] Can anyone transfer a Canadian number

2009-01-05 Thread Jacob Suter
Sounds like it's time to file a lawsuit on both hitcalls and their provider. Imagine how quickly the telcos would have to straighten up their acts if transferring a number was truly as smooth, easy and transparent as transferring a domain name. Also, nobody I know has lost a domain (that wasn't

Re: [asterisk-biz] Lost job in this economic risk

2008-11-06 Thread Jacob Suter
Do what every average ITSP seems to do: 1 Rent a collocated server running an ancient version of Asterisk. 2 ??? 3 Profit! Good luck. JS From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Spring Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:09 PM To:

Re: [asterisk-biz] CLEC/other Origination.

2008-10-17 Thread Jacob Suter
Mostly because it opens you up for legal issues, if you're guilty or not. NDAs for pricing and technical issues I can understand - but for availability it'd only make sense to let this information be known far and wide - in my world it's called 'free advertising'. JS -Original

Re: [asterisk-biz] US/Canada DID Providers who expose full DID inventory

2008-10-01 Thread Jacob Suter
[shitloads of whining deleted] -- Alex -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel: (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599 Do you have anything useful to add to this conversation?

[asterisk-biz] SIP (or IAX) speaking cellco?

2008-09-08 Thread Jacob Suter
With all the talk of the Snom M3, it got me wondering if there were any cellular providers offering cheap SIP handoffs to/from their network? There are several regional/local 'PCS' cellular providers here doing flat rate local-only service for outrageously cheap prices. I'd assume that handing

Re: [asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service

2008-07-31 Thread Jacob Suter
Not entirely... My 936-546-6479 number was not portable. That's a Verizon Wireless number out of a Windstream/Valor/GTE/Contel exchange. ATT couldn't/wouldn't port it (who sells numbers out of the same 936-546 exchange) and Sprint said they couldn't touch it. Now I'm a happy Sprint customer in

Re: [asterisk-biz] Wireless SIP phones?

2008-07-18 Thread Jacob Suter
... Radio always has some sort of excuse to give somebody trouble :) Jacob Suter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trixter aka Bret McDanel Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 6:03 AM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject

Re: [asterisk-biz] VoIP Provider

2008-06-23 Thread Jacob Suter
All in all, I agree Vitelity sells a good service. I had Houston LATA (936-909 to be exact) DIDs which would regularly go unable to be reached as dialed from cellular/landline/etc. I changed those DIDs (I'm in an area lacking LNP, so we retain a standard B1 with call forwarding) to another

Re: [asterisk-biz] Open letter to digium, asterisk developers and consultants

2008-06-09 Thread Jacob Suter
software don't have these problems.) Jacob Suter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trixter aka Bret McDanel Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 7:47 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: [asterisk-biz] Open letter to digium

Re: [asterisk-biz] Looking for feedback on headsets

2008-03-12 Thread Jacob Suter
I've had decent experience in testing situations with the Sony Playstation2 headset (its built to be kid-resistant, USB 1.1, standard USB connector) and x-lite and other similar softphones. The computer headsets I've used *sucked* at 3-4x the price. You can also use USB Bluetooth adapters and BT