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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:33 am    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

Can anybody recommend a DID provider that will allow me to look through a list of available numbers in a given area code/prefix so I can select a semi-vanity number from that list?  I don't have a specific number that I'm looking for, I'd just like to find a number that would be easy for customers to remember.


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Paul
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:38 am    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

Which country code?
 
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Can anybody recommend a DID provider that will allow me to look through a list of available numbers in a given area code/prefix so I can select a semi-vanity number from that list?  I don't have a specific number that I'm looking for, I'd just like to find a number that would be easy for customers to remember.

Thanks

Paul
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 11:11 am    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

On May 20, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Paul Brown wrote:
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Can anybody recommend a DID provider that will allow me to look through a list of available numbers in a given area code/prefix so I can select a semi-vanity number from that list?  I don't have a specific number that I'm looking for, I'd just like to find a number that would be easy for customers to remember.


Thanks
Paul





Flowroute does this.


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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 11:20 am    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

Sorry - minor detail :)


1- US (conus)


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Jon Paior | Geek Pty Ltd <Jon@geek.on.net (Jon@geek.on.net)> wrote:
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Which country code?
 
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Can anybody recommend a DID provider that will allow me to look through a list of available numbers in a given area code/prefix so I can select a semi-vanity number from that list?  I don't have a specific number that I'm looking for, I'd just like to find a number that would be easy for customers to remember.

Thanks

Paul




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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 11:26 am    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

On May 20, 2009, at 6:29 AM, Paul Brown wrote:

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Can anybody recommend a DID provider that will allow me to look
through a list of available numbers in a given area code/prefix so I
can select a semi-vanity number from that list? I don't have a
specific number that I'm looking for, I'd just like to find a number
that would be easy for customers to remember.
Thanks
Paul
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Broadvox let's you do this, so does Bandwidth.com, on the lower scale
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:23 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

We can do that,
Send a list of area codes and we can supply you with what you want
 
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Subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider


 
Can anybody recommend a DID provider that will allow me to look through a list of available numbers in a given area code/prefix so I can select a semi-vanity number from that list?  I don't have a specific number that I'm looking for, I'd just like to find a number that would be easy for customers to remember.

Thanks

Paul
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:38 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

Go here:

https://www.teliax.com/customers/new?plan_id=4

Enter a city, state or a number local to you in the 'search' field
under "Pick A Number". On the right it will pull up a list of local
DID's in inventory that are local to you.

David

On May 20, 2009, at 5:29 AM, Paul Brown wrote:

Quote:
Can anybody recommend a DID provider that will allow me to look
through a list of available numbers in a given area code/prefix so I
can select a semi-vanity number from that list? I don't have a
specific number that I'm looking for, I'd just like to find a number
that would be easy for customers to remember.
Thanks
Paul
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:22 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

One reason this is not done by origination providers at the pre-ordering
and/or pre-NDA stage is because revealing available numbers would let
any curious person do LNP dips and/or check pooling info and figure out
the underlying carriers.

Paul Brown wrote:

Quote:
Can anybody recommend a DID provider that will allow me to look through
a list of available numbers in a given area code/prefix so I can select
a semi-vanity number from that list? I don't have a specific number
that I'm looking for, I'd just like to find a number that would be easy
for customers to remember.
Thanks
Paul


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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:00 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

On Wed, 20 May 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:

Quote:
One reason this is not done by origination providers at the pre-ordering
and/or pre-NDA stage is because revealing available numbers would let
any curious person do LNP dips and/or check pooling info and figure out
the underlying carriers.

Oooooooh, that'd be awful! (I love ya Alex, but really?) One might be
able to determine if L3 or Paetec or Verizon is the underlying carrier,
and then what? Go around the 3rd party provider and buy direct? NOT buy
the number because you hate the underlying carrier?

I'm not saying providers should publish their providers publically, but
NOT showing the number because you might:

1. Find out the provider
2. ...
3. Profit!

is silly.

I've held the belief that that providers don't show the numbers so that a
number you want doesn't disappear when you are trying to order it. I
don't mind the number disappearing -- it's first come, first served.
However, I am able to sell more numbers if I know what the number is
before hand because people get 'attached' to numbers when they know what
it will be, and THEY don't want to lose the number they've come to love.

I'm fine if a company only shows you the number after you sign a contract
or something, but NOT showing the numbers before you buy so you don't find
out who THEY are buying from seems pretty silly, if true.

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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:18 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

Yo Pete!

I didn't say it was a _good_ reason! Just that that's their reasoning.
You are completely correct, there's nothing worth hiding and the whole
question isn't really interesting.

But, as you know with businesspeople, many of them - especially ones
trying to game relatively unsophisticated little backwoods cottage
industries - often like to imagine themselves to have something of
immense value, if for no other reason than self-esteem. So, the
underlying carrier of an ITSP becomes a critically important "trade
secret" and, we should be ever-vigilant about "espionage."

-- Alex

Peter Beckman wrote:

Quote:
Oooooooh, that'd be awful! (I love ya Alex, but really?) One might be
able to determine if L3 or Paetec or Verizon is the underlying carrier,
and then what? Go around the 3rd party provider and buy direct? NOT buy
the number because you hate the underlying carrier?

I'm not saying providers should publish their providers publically, but
NOT showing the number because you might:

1. Find out the provider
2. ...
3. Profit!

is silly.

I've held the belief that that providers don't show the numbers so that a
number you want doesn't disappear when you are trying to order it. I
don't mind the number disappearing -- it's first come, first served.
However, I am able to sell more numbers if I know what the number is
before hand because people get 'attached' to numbers when they know what
it will be, and THEY don't want to lose the number they've come to love.

I'm fine if a company only shows you the number after you sign a contract
or something, but NOT showing the numbers before you buy so you don't find
out who THEY are buying from seems pretty silly, if true.

Beckman
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:21 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

In hiding the carrier you to business with is just silly in my opinion.
Basically what your saying is I know something you don't and I won't tell
you what it is.
If this is the only method you have of protecting your business or keeping
your customers as yours then you won't be around long after your customers
get some education under their belt.

Tom

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Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

On Wed, 20 May 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:

Quote:
One reason this is not done by origination providers at the
pre-ordering and/or pre-NDA stage is because revealing available
numbers would let any curious person do LNP dips and/or check pooling
info and figure out the underlying carriers.

Oooooooh, that'd be awful! (I love ya Alex, but really?) One might be
able to determine if L3 or Paetec or Verizon is the underlying carrier,
and then what? Go around the 3rd party provider and buy direct? NOT buy
the number because you hate the underlying carrier?

I'm not saying providers should publish their providers publically, but
NOT showing the number because you might:

1. Find out the provider
2. ...
3. Profit!

is silly.

I've held the belief that that providers don't show the numbers so that a
number you want doesn't disappear when you are trying to order it. I
don't mind the number disappearing -- it's first come, first served.
However, I am able to sell more numbers if I know what the number is
before hand because people get 'attached' to numbers when they know what
it will be, and THEY don't want to lose the number they've come to love.

I'm fine if a company only shows you the number after you sign a contract
or something, but NOT showing the numbers before you buy so you don't find
out who THEY are buying from seems pretty silly, if true.

Beckman
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