PSTN gateway service for Asterisk in the US

Broadvoice has a plan called BYOD that costs $6/mo for 100 outgoing minutes to US and Canada, 3.9 cpm beyond that, or $20/mo for unlimited outgoing. If you want incoming calls, they're free.

They specifically support Asterisk and have detailed config instructions on their web. I haven't used it, but they certainly look like they're serious about supporting Asterisk.

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R's, John

I never did manage to get Broadvoice to work with Asterisk at all. On the plus side, I did get my money back and they didn't keep billing my card.

miguel

My experience with broadvoice and asterisk wasn't that good. I signed up with them last summer a little after they announced their BYO plan. After a week of flawless service they announced that they just "tightened the security" on some of their servers. At that point asterisk stopped connecting to certain servers entirely. It was essentially the luck of the draw as to whether asterisk would connect to an old-config or new-config server. I gave them another week to straighten things out. When little changed I quit. It took another 6 months for me to get them to stop billing my credit card though.

A much better deal in my opinion is to go with Gefachi or Teliax which both have 2 cents per minute with no monthlies and no setup. Both work with asterisk and can talk either SIP or IAX. I'm not a fan of proprietary protocols. I just use SIP with ulaw encoding and get phone quality audio, with less noise.

The one thing I wish I could find is a VOIP service provider that was only 20-30 ms away from me. It seems silly to send IP packets all the way to the east coast (adding 100ms delay) just to call your neighbor in California.

-wolfgang

Voicepulse Connect, NuFone, voipjet, teliax

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Marco

Hey asshole, this has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the question that this person asked. STOP SPAMMING the newgrsoups with your garbage or at the very least quit changing your address so I don't have to update my killfile all the time. You are one of only about three people I have had to killfile over several years of usenet use, you are that annoying, really.

I had assumed he was changing his address because the people who complained to his ISP after each spam blast were getting the old ones cancelled.

miguel