Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP is a restricted business?

2022-01-05 Thread Oren Yehezkely
Carlos, The country is the US of course. I did not know that this list has people from other countries. The problem is not what category you choose but it is what THEY CHOOSE FOR YOU. Just by looking at the website, they decide that you are a VoIP company and your account may be immediately

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] VoIP is a restricted business?

2022-01-05 Thread Carlos Alvarez
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. But I don't think "VoIP" is an industry, category, or business type. We always choose "telecom" as the type. Paypal and Amex recently made a change where if you choose telecom as

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP is a restricted business?

2022-01-05 Thread Henning Westerholt
experience. Cheers, Henning -- Henning Westerholt – https://skalatan.de/blog/ Kamailio services – https://gilawa.com<https://gilawa.com/> From: VoiceOps On Behalf Of Oren Yehezkely Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 2:00 PM To: voiceops@voiceops.org Subject: [VoiceOps] VoIP is a restricted bu

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP is a restricted business?

2022-01-05 Thread Tim Bray via VoiceOps
Hi, You might want to say which country, as banking regulations will vary from country to country. There is a lot of fraud in telecoms, but I've usually seen this come out in terms of delayed settlement for card transactions and such.  (but I've not seen this for years) And remember that

[VoiceOps] VoIP is a restricted business?

2022-01-05 Thread Oren Yehezkely
Hello, Happy New Year everyone. I recently became aware of the fact that banks (and financial institutions) define any business that merely mentions the word VoIP as restricted. Meaning they would not allow such a business to work with them. As if VoIP is some kind of an illegal substance. I am