Teliax users, I have a couple questions about Teliax, just hopeing some current customers might shed some light on them. How reliable is a toll-free number from Teliax? Has anyone had any problems with it? The Pay as you go plan has a Billing of 60/1, what does that mean? My guess is 60 seconds minimum (does this apply for incoming AND outgoing, or just outgoing) and a period of 1 bill per month? For a total bill per month, it would be $.02 per outgoing minute (with a minimum of 60 seconds per call) and $.029/minute for incoming toll free (don't know if minimum time applies here) plus $4.99 for a toll-free number, right? Is there any other charges because of the toll free number? Thanks for your help, Ryan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051217/061710e7/attachment.htm
"Ryan Burke" <burke@tailorhosting.com> writes:> Is there any other charges because of the toll free number?I was toying with the idea of getting an 800 number too, but the issue of a substantial per call fee for pay-phones calls has me worried. Hopefully someone here can clarify what the deal is there. I've seen numbers quoted as high as a 60-cents for the payphone settlement. from: http://www.trac.org/news/2005/tracnotes-vol-3-22.html Watch Out for New 1-800 Number Scam - An old scam may be cropping up again for consumers with personal 1-800 numbers. Most long distance companies charge subscribers a per-call fee for calls placed from a payphone to a residential 1-800 number. This fee is then sent back to the owner of the payphone. While this arrangement is perfectly legitimate, in 2002, scammers in Berkeley, California found a way to take advantage of the system. They set up a phony payphone company and connect a bank of payphones to an automatic dialer. The dialer then randomly dialed 1-800 numbers until it hit a residential toll-free number. When the call is picked up, the scammer pocketed the 24? fee. Thanks to the auto-dialer, they could quickly rack up profits from the scam. By the time the operation was shut down by police, they had netted almost a half million dollars. Reports of a similar scam are coming in and consumers with residential 800 numbers are urged to check their April and May long distance bills for mysterious one-minute phone calls from Denver, Colorado. If you find such a call, be sure to contact your phone company. For more information on this scam, click herei. (Thanks to ConsumerWorld.org for this tip.) WIRELESS WATCH -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ Direct SIP URL Dialing: http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/phonedirectory.html
> I have a couple questions about Teliax, just hopeing some current customers mightshed some light on them.> > How reliable is a toll-free number from Teliax? Has anyone had any problems with it?They have been very reliable for me. Once in a great while they'll have a problem, but then every company does.> The Pay as you go plan has a Billing of 60/1, what does that mean? My guess is 60seconds minimum (does this apply for> incoming AND outgoing, or just outgoing) and a period of 1 bill per month?That sounds right. Calls are rounded up to the next whole minute. Billing is once a month.> For a total bill per month, it would be $.02 per outgoing minute (with a minimum of60 seconds per call) and $.029/minute for> incoming toll free (don't know if minimum time applies here) plus $4.99 for atoll-free number, right? Yes, that's right.> Is there any other charges because of the toll free number?Nope. (I haven't paid any attention, but I don't think there are any taxes on it either.) To say all of the above a little clearer.... all usage (regardless of incoming or outgoing) is $0.02/min, except for incoming 800 calls that are currently invoiced at $0.029/min. Then add $4.99/mo for each 800 or DID number, and that's it. The pay as you go plan also supports an unlimited number (within reason) of simultanous calls, so busy tone is essentially the result of how you program your asterisk. A rather nice feature is you give a credit card number and they will automatically replenish/invoice you when needed, and you set the amount on their web site as to how much you want them to replenish your account. So, if you plan on low usage and replenish the account with $50.00, then invoicing really occurs whenever your account runs out of funds, regardless of whether its every two weeks or once in six months. Quality of audio is very good, you get to choose the codec you want to use, and you choose the CallerID that you want for outgoing calls. After you sign up for their service you will be given a login userid and password to access your account info. That web site leaves a little to be desired in terms of clearity, as some configuration options are not very clearly identified. But, once you know that, then its not difficult to adjust your callerid, sip vs iax preference, codec preference, etc. Rich
Robert,
This configuration is working fine for me (In ontario with Bell Canada)
dring1 is the 2nd ring pattern on our line, it is a double-ring
dring3 is the regular ring, which I wanted to ignore but since you cant do
that I just send it to a wait loop
ZAPATA.CONF
[channels]
usercallerid=yes
signalling=fxs_ks
usedistinctiveringdetection=1
faxdetect=both
dring1=323,0,0
dring1context=work
dring2=90,0,0
dring2context=home
dring3=0,0,0
dring3context=home
echotraining=800
echocancel=yes
echocancelwhenbridged=yes
rxgain=0.0
txgain=0.0
musiconhold=default
channel => 1-2
EXTENSIONS.CONF (partial)
[home]
;ignore 853-1073 calls unless it is a fax
exten => s,1,GotoIf($[${CALLERIDNUM} = 8531073]?5:2)
exten => s,2,Wait,30
exten => s,3,system(/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/phone_call.sh ${CALLERID})
exten => s,4,goto(s,7)
exten => s,5,answer
exten => s,6,Goto(fax,1)
exten => s,7,Hangup
exten => fax,1,Macro(home_faxreceive)
[work]
;
; We start with what to do when a call first comes in.
;
exten => s,1,Answer ; Answer the line
exten => s,2,Wait,2 ; Wait a second, just for fun
exten => s,3,DigitTimeout,5 ; Set Digit Timeout to 5 seconds
exten => s,4,ResponseTimeout,10 ; Set Response Timeout to 10 seconds
exten => s,5,AGI(openclose.agi)
exten => s,6,GotoIf($[${STATUS} = closed]?10:7)
exten => s,7,GotoIf($[${STATUS} = holiday]?12:8)
exten => s,8,GotoIf($[${STATUS} = afternoon]?14:16)
exten => s,9,Goto(s,16)
exten => s,10,BackGround(goodevening)
exten => s,11,Goto(s,17)
exten => s,12,BackGround(holiday)
exten => s,13,Goto(s,17)
exten => s,14,BackGround(goodafternoon)
exten => s,15,Goto(s,17)
exten => s,16,BackGround(goodmorning)
exten => s,17,BackGround(greeting)
exten => s,18,BackGround(instruct)
exten => o,1,VoiceMailMain
exten => t,1,playback(goodbye)
exten => t,2,Hangup
exten => i,1,Playback,invalid-exten
exten => i,2,Goto,s|17
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From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Robert La
Ferla
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:44 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Distinctive Ring and zapata.conf
Does anyone have distinctive ring working with Asterisk? Could you
share your zapata.conf and relevent extensions.conf?
Thanks.
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