Re: [VoiceOps] Landline vs Mobile Lookup

2023-03-21 Thread John Levine via VoiceOps
It appears that Christopher Aloi via VoiceOps said: >We have customers sending text messages out and are looking to >scrub landlines from their lists. I have found a few, pricing seems a bit >all over the place. Thanks for the reply. Does VoIP count as landline or mobile? I have a bunch of

Re: [VoiceOps] iNum and UN numbers via ex Voxbone now Bandwidth

2022-06-10 Thread John Levine
8.8.8.e164.arpa.86400 IN NS ns1.inum.net. 8.8.8.e164.arpa.86400 IN NS ns2.inum.net. R's, John -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading t

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP is a restricted business?

2022-01-05 Thread John Levine
It appears that Carlos Alvarez said: > >I'm not aware of some VoIP banking issue in the US, but you didn't specify >the country. I've never heard of Wise. It's what used to be called Transferwise. They were originally a FX provider but now they provide multi-currency accounts which look a

Re: [VoiceOps] National Do Not Call Registry"

2021-10-10 Thread John Levine
It appears that Ryan Finnesey said: >I was wonder what others were doing to license the National Do Not Call >Registry? It seems I cannot license the data set and give >access to multiple customers? Items 36 through 38 in the FTC's FAQ appear to address this question.

Re: [VoiceOps] SMS Spam from 77088 Amazon Alerts?

2021-09-03 Thread John Levine
It appears that Peter Beckman said: >Is it possible that some service is allowing someone who is NOT the owner >of 77088 to send SMS messages pretending to be 77088? Did someone get into >Amazon's account or 3rd party account? Amazon's Simple Notification Service lets you send SMS from a short

Re: [VoiceOps] AT Verizon to block text messaging

2021-03-06 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >There are lots of extremely legitimate applications for A2P, such as >appointment reminders, notifications that laundry is done, our network outage >monitoring system. If that went away, it would just move to some other table >over the top platform. Yes, I know. If they

Re: [VoiceOps] AT Verizon to block text messaging

2021-03-06 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >Spotify is a terrible example. People listen to one song at a time, and >choose the songs they listen to. > >Unwanted A2P SMS is more akin to unwanted commercial mail. It is also, for anyone who hasn't been paying attention, completely illegal. I expect my opinion is not

Re: [VoiceOps] Definition: Local Calls

2020-12-09 Thread John Levine
In article <1038462169.17163.1607448901620.JavaMail.mhammett@Thunderfuck2> you write: >My operating theory is that if it's on the same tandem switch, I might as well >treat it as local. If only. At my rural ILEC, the next town up is a remote from the switch in my town but for historical

Re: [VoiceOps] Area code 886

2020-07-24 Thread John Levine
years ago and those codes are now also reserved for toll-free expansion. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly ___ Vo

Re: [VoiceOps] Get ready for a weird dialplan change. 9-8-8 suicide hotline.

2020-07-18 Thread John Levine
In article you write: > >Fortunately, all we have to do is setup call forwarding for 988 calls to go >to +1-800-273-8255 For places where you dial 9 for an outside line, are you adding rules for 9-88, 9-988, both? Neither? ___ VoiceOps mailing list

Re: [VoiceOps] Odd Routing to Iowa

2019-12-31 Thread John Levine
In article <1464181553.3249.1577818986090.JavaMail.mhammett@ThunderFuck> you write: >-=-=-=-=-=- >-=-=-=-=-=- > >The entity I'm calling is based out of Goldfield, so in this particular case, >it isn't malicious. I'm not going to deny >that there could be other malicious uses of that exchange.

Re: [VoiceOps] STIR/SHAKEN Discussion: Will it help?

2019-12-17 Thread John Levine
In article you write: > Sure, but have you ever tried to contact a carrier for which you do not > have a business relationship and get them to do something, and you are > smaller and less consequential than they are? > > We can block Hooli, but now OUR customers are livid, and Hooli doesn't >

Re: [VoiceOps] SIP Credential Strength / Domestic Fraud

2019-12-13 Thread John Levine
In article <20191213175459.GD1788@tlaquepaque.localdomain> you write: >A crude analysis of wholesale termination decks for +1 641-741[1] reveals >prices >in the range of $0.019/min to $0.22/min, so yeah, termination arbitrage. >> In article >> you >> write: >> >Arbitrage scam, that's still

Re: [VoiceOps] SIP Credential Strength / Domestic Fraud

2019-12-13 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >Arbitrage scam, that's still one of those local monopolies most likely. Killduff Telephone has one switch with two prefixes so, yeah, termination arbitrage. R's, John > > >On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:51 AM Dave Sill wrote: > >> All, >> >> We recently saw fraudulent

Re: [VoiceOps] Carrier who can port Clayton NM

2019-11-04 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >On a more general topic, what is the best way to reach carriers like ENMR >when your usual suspects are unable to port a number in such an area? > >We've seen this before, where a wireless carrier has most of the blocks in >a given ratecenter and then there's a small LEC

Re: [VoiceOps] Fax ATAs/devices

2017-04-28 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >Fax will not die, at least not anytime soon. Many business processes exist >that count on fax. > >There is a misconception that it is more secure than other document >transmission

Re: [VoiceOps] AT / Onvoy / Vonage call routing screwup after LNP

2016-12-05 Thread John Levine
>I do not have inside knowledge as to whether Onvoy appropriately notified >Vonage of the port-out, ... Ah, Vonage. Back when they were young, they didn't plan adequately for growth so their service was chaotic and their customer service was worse. So I ported my number to another VoIP

Re: [VoiceOps] SIP provider that will route to free conference services

2015-12-02 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >We have a few customers who need to reach free conference call services and >none of our current carriers will route the calls. >Are there any providers out there that will take these calls via SIP? We are

Re: [VoiceOps] Local Rwandan DID for US company?

2015-08-16 Thread John Levine
In article 5d50f885-2846-4f5e-b1a5-f31b0402b...@nerdventures.com you write: Howdy, folks, A consulting client is traveling to Rwanda for business, and I'd like to provide him with a local number he can call to reach me if need be. I don't see any Rwandan DIDs at Twilio or VOIP.ms. Any leads?