Miami Man Faces $120 Million Fine for 96-Million Robocall Spree
FCC is finally cracking down on telemarketers spoofing caller-id within same prefix: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-22/miami-man-faces-120-million-fine-for-96-million-robocall-spree A...
View Article[Equipment] New Panasonic dect SIP phone KX-TGP600
I just noticed Panasonic has a new dect SIP phone: http://panasonic.net/pcc/products/sipphone/products/kx_tgp600/index.html In addition to the usual dect handsets, it looks like they have a dect desk...
View Article[PBX] FreePBX for the Raspberry Pi
The included script (install) and archive (install.tar.gz) will build FreePBX 2.11, 12, 13, or 14 plus Asterisk 11, 12, 13, or 14 on a Raspberry Pi. iptables, dnsmasq, exim4, and pygooglevoice are also...
View ArticleSetting E911 call route on OBi 110, sp2
tl:dr version ... Anybody familiar with parsing OBi DigitMaps and Outbound Call Routes, can you please check my strings below? I want all 911 calls to be routed via sp2 as "911", and no other changes....
View Article[General] The Spout defunct? Spout DID coming back as disconnected
I just thought I'd let everyone know that I was speaking with Iristel and they have cut off Spout's account due to non-payment and an agreement they had to keep the account active with the...
View ArticleVoip Latency Question and Softphone vs Hardphone
Hello, I had a question about VOIP Latency. It seems like round trip recommendation is under 150ms. Is this true? What all is included here? I understand in general lower latency is better. Is under...
View Article[Asterisk] TCP transport and NAT for Asterisk
I am experiencing a strange problem for Asterisk behind my home router related to TCP transport. I have set port forwarding to make sure the sip ports and rtp ports are forwarded properly. It works...
View Article[Voip.ms] A LNP Number Porting Quandary
I have run in to an interesting issue while researching a LNP port out of several DIDs located in the San Francisco Central (California) rate center to VOIP.MS. The numbers are located in a fairly new...
View ArticlePorting nightmare voip.ms
I have a customer comprised of 7 users/phones with 800 number being ported. I have a request to voip.ms to port the 800 number. I explained to voip.ms the absolute need to be notified when the number...
View Article[Equipment] Registration lost on Obi 202
The registration of one of my providers got lost ( one of my two Localphone accounts) and there is no way to get it back. from putting in new password/ ID over rebooting everything over deleting...
View Article[VOIPo.COM] Is VOIPo Having Probles?
We can make outgoing calls but incoming calls do not go through. Sometimes we get an all ckts busy. Sometimes ring back but no real ring, etc.
View Article[Voip.ms] Port Primus TalkBroadband to Voip.ms and/or TekSavvy TekTalk?
Has anyone ported from TBB to voip.ms? From TBB to TekTalk? My friend has TBB with a main number and a second alternate-areacode number, the latter costing $5/mo. They want to move to TekTalk...
View Article[PBX] 3CX Phone System
I received an offer from 3CX which some may find of interest. I have no idea if this offer is available to the public in General but I provide the link and you can try and see if they will extend the...
View Article"phone.com" or "etollfree.net" for vanity US toll free DID?
Good day. I found an available vanity toll free number that I would like to purchase. Both phone.com and etollfree.net claim that they do not charge service fees for subscription or set-up, other than...
View Article[Anveo] anyone having issues with anveo?
all the sudden some of my test calls are not coming through. info from google contacts widget is not populating at all. anveo site really slow and timing out. anyone else having issues? TIA edited to...
View Article[Other] CallWithUs Toll free rate
I was looking at my daughters account today and noticed that it appears that CWU may have dropped the toll free charge from 18 cents per hour to 6 cents per hour. I don't see that as obnoxious at all....
View ArticleTrying to get back our 212 phone number with Vonage
My family and I had a phone number for many years when I was growing up that we would like to put back into service: (212) 727-xxxx. It was originally Verizon landline service but was ported over to...
View Article[PBX] PIAF: How to force a DISA to use a specific outbound route
Hello: Is there a way to force the outbound call from a DISA to use a specific outbound route? Can a "custom context" be used for this purpose? I don't really want to use a dial-plan rule. Any...
View Article[Voip.ms] Voip.ms porting issues
Let me start off by saying that I'm a huge fan of Voip.ms. Huge fan. They are my main carrier and I have had nothing but excellent service from them, but my last two attempts to port in numbers from...
View Article[Anveo] Anveo Direct - is it normal to have 3 "Unreachable" peers?
Hello: Is it normal to have these 3 hosts to have a status of "UNREACHABLE"? Thank you.
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