hi; i do not know how it works in the uk, but is there an equalivent to our 866-877-888-800 numbers for london for say? I have some friends in london and want them to be able to call me in the states. Please help with where i can get the numbers, what they start with, how much they are, and what not. Thanks mike thanks for reading Systems administrator and owner of http://gwhosting.net msn: messaging at audioficks.net twitter: http://twitter.com/creepyblindy
You can get incoming numbers from voipon.co.uk and a load of other companies in the UK... 0800 is free for them to ring but you have to pay for the call, you can also get regional numbers which are charged as a local call for them - stay away from 070 numbers though. 2008/9/29 Babcock, Michael Alex <mbabcock06 at wou.edu>> hi; > i do not know how it works in the uk, but is there an equalivent to > our 866-877-888-800 numbers for london for say? I have some friends in > london and want them to be able to call me in the states. > Please help with where i can get the numbers, what they start with, > how much they are, and what not. > Thanks > mike > thanks for reading > Systems administrator and owner of http://gwhosting.net > msn: messaging at audioficks.net > twitter: http://twitter.com/creepyblindy > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080929/678bd0c0/attachment.htm
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Babcock, Michael Alex wrote:> hi; > i do not know how it works in the uk, but is there an equalivent to > our 866-877-888-800 numbers for london for say? I have some friends in > london and want them to be able to call me in the states. > Please help with where i can get the numbers, what they start with, > how much they are, and what not.As far as call charges are concerned, there is no such thing as local or long-distance in the UK now, and hadn't been for many years. We now have "geographic" and "non geographic" numbers. (Non geographics are sometimes called NGNs) The Geographics start 01 or 02 and are what they imply - mapped to a particular geographic area. (or are supposed to as some are ported into VoIP and moved) These numbers are relatively low cost to call and often can be called for free out of "inclusive minutes" or other deals with your phone company. NGNs include freephone numbers (aka toll-free in the US) - starting 0800, 0808 or 0500. NGNs can also be revenue generating - they are usually free to assign and maintain, but cost the caller more than calling a Geographic number and the terminating operator generates revenue from the call. These numbers typically start 084 or 087. The 087's generating more revenue than 084, and cost more to the caller. (There are other ranges of premium numbers - 09 and 070, but we'll not go there) So - If you want your friends to call you for free, then why not just allocate then a SIP account on your own system, then get them to run a softphone, or buy a hard-phone and then they can connect up? Failing that, they can get a SIP account with a multitude of UK (and European) based operators and make calls - sometimes for free, sometimes for a small per minute charge. And failing all that - because they don't have/want technology, you can get an account with one of these operators and terminate it in your own SIP/IAX hardware, then they can call you for the price of a standard UK geographic number - which may be free for them, depending on the package they have with their phone company. A final thing to note, there is a new range of non-geographic numbers in the UK which start 03. These cost the same to call as 01 and 02 numbers (or should), so you could allocate one of these and have it terminated on your own SIP/IAX account. People to do it via (other than me - I can't take US currency, but drop an email if interested anyway) in no particular order: www.gradwell.com, www.voiptalk.co.uk, www.voipon.co.uk, www.voip.co.uk, www.aql.co.uk and a few others. Hope this helps! Gordon
what are 70 numbers? On Sep 28, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Geraint Lee wrote:> You can get incoming numbers from voipon.co.uk and a load of other > companies in the UK... 0800 is free for them to ring but you have to > pay for the call, you can also get regional numbers which are > charged as a local call for them - stay away from 070 numbers though. > > 2008/9/29 Babcock, Michael Alex <mbabcock06 at wou.edu> > hi; > i do not know how it works in the uk, but is there an equalivent to > our 866-877-888-800 numbers for london for say? I have some friends in > london and want them to be able to call me in the states. > Please help with where i can get the numbers, what they start with, > how much they are, and what not. > Thanks > mike > thanks for reading > Systems administrator and owner of http://gwhosting.net > msn: messaging at audioficks.net > twitter: http://twitter.com/creepyblindy > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-usersthanks for reading Systems administrator and owner of http://gwhosting.net msn: messaging at audioficks.net twitter: http://twitter.com/creepyblindy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080929/593b4337/attachment.htm