Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-04 Thread Peter Svensson
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > so many phone companies are offering free long distance anymore to compete > with cell phones (and of course, most, if not all cell phones are free long > distance) that I think we'll get to a point where anyone in the US will be > able to call anyone

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-04 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 04 February 2005 08:00 am, David Brodbeck wrote: > > Is providing the ability to assign numbers to people instead of to > > locations really that hard? Is it really so much easier for Internet > > domains to do it? Or is this just an oligarchy at work? :) [snip] > Billing is based on

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Thompson
David Brodbeck wrote: Is providing the ability to assign numbers to people instead of to locations really that hard? Is it really so much easier for Internet domains to do it? Or is this just an oligarchy at work? :) A phone number is more analogous to an IP address than a domain name. If yo

RE: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-04 Thread David Brodbeck
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is providing the ability to assign numbers to people instead of to > locations really that hard? Is it really so much easier for Internet > domains to do it? Or is this just an oligarchy at work? :) A phone nu

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, then. If a $30/month for a virtual circuit forwarded is as good as it gets, then that pays for 600 minutes of toll-free number time at $0.05/minute. On top of the fact that we would like a toll-free number anyway, it looks like there is almost no reason to keep a "p

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-03 Thread Peter Svensson
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > On tor, 2005-02-03 at 20:02 +0100, Stefan Gofferje wrote: > Actually, that is wrong. Any company that uses a 0180x is just single > minded and purely focused on the german marked. Funny as hell, these > numbers are simply blocked by nearly any inte

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-03 Thread Martin List-Petersen
On tor, 2005-02-03 at 20:02 +0100, Stefan Gofferje wrote: [snip] > Maybe you have something like that too, where your customers don't pay > too much and you don't pay too much. A nice side effect is that nobody > will ever know that your companies HQ is in a lonely little village in > the middle

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-03 Thread Martin List-Petersen
On tor, 2005-02-03 at 19:13 +, Peter Bowyer wrote: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:02:03 +0100, Stefan Gofferje > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe you have something like that too, where your customers don't pay > > too much and you don't pay too much. A nice side effect is that nobody > > will

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-03 Thread tmassey
asterisk-users@lists.digium.com wrote on 02/03/2005 02:20:57 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Also, we're currently looking into toll-free service, but the alternatives > > seem to be much the same. At least nobody is telling us if there is a way > > to lock in a certain number even if we c

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-03 Thread Andrew Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, we're currently looking into toll-free service, but the alternatives seem to be much the same. At least nobody is telling us if there is a way to lock in a certain number even if we change providers. They've all told us that the number we receive is theirs, and i

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-03 Thread Peter Bowyer
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:02:03 +0100, Stefan Gofferje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you have something like that too, where your customers don't pay > too much and you don't pay too much. A nice side effect is that nobody > will ever know that your companies HQ is in a lonely little village in

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-03 Thread Max
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[Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

2005-02-03 Thread tmassey
Hello! We are open to the possibility of changing our business telephone number shortly. This will most likely be necessary due to a physical move, changing providers and a few other reasons. However, we woud like this to be the *last* time we need to do this. Ever. No matter what. Is that