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btm@templetons.com (Brad Templeton) wrote in message news:<10np2joanvbr96a@corp.supernews.com>...
> In article <96dd42-d9g.ln1@lairds.us>,
> Kyler Laird <Kyler@news.Lairds.org> wrote:
> >btm@templetons.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
> >
> >>>Check out
http://www.voiptelco.net
> >
> >I finally figured out that followup you saw (and I saw on one of my
> >messages) was from some stupid 'bot that just appends the ad to the
> >bottom of the entire quoted message. Ug.
> >
> >>I did. $15 per DID as a wholesale price? People are retailing for
> >>far less than that. Broadvoice for $6 including 100 minutes of
> >>outgoing USA, which would cost another $3.13 at your "wholesale" bronze
> >>price.
> >
> >Be careful. BroadVoice says that their $6 ($5.95 BYOD-Lite) plan is
> >for residential use only. For non-residential they require going all
> >the way to the $29.95 Business Unlimited plan. You can add two
> >numbers to that plan for $1.95/month though, so it works out to be
> >$33.85 for three lines or $11.28/line...but you also get "unlimited"
> >outgoing calls. That's still a lot better than paying $15 for an
> >incoming line from some spammer.
> >
> >>DIDs should be in the few-buck range wholesale -- (or perhaps $1.50
> >>with a tiny per-minute charge for incoming)
> >
> >VoicePulse Connect! is $7.99/line with no additional charge for
> >incoming minutes. That's the best I've found. I'd like to hear of
> >any that you find in the "few-buck range".
>
> Point was this site is pretending to be wholesale. Wholesale DIDs
> are much cheaper, can be below a buck, but you need to be buying lots
> and lots of them. Ditto termination which in major cities wholesales
> for about 0.6 cents/minute, again if you buy a lot.
>
> Call Level 3 for example.
>
> If you are buying retail, then plans like Broadvoice make sense.
I,m using Nufone today. It works OK, but the monthly is about $7.99.
I agree that wholesale should be about .5 or in the few buck range.
The only thing that I've found as a provider, is to put a PRI in every
city. I pay $4.00 for a block of 20 DID's on a PRI that I have in
South FLA., not including my local loop charge and tax. (Not real
cost effective.) I'll let you know what I find.