[TriLUG] asterisk meeting last saturday

[John Turner]

On Jun 22, 2004, at 11:47 PM, Jon Carnes wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 22:45, John Turner wrote:
>> On Jun 22, 2004, at 7:14 PM, William Schulz wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 07:05:45PM -0400, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
>>>> William Schulz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> And what are they charging you for said service, if you don't mind I
>>>> ask?
>>>
>>> I pay $7.95 for the telephone number, incoming calls are free, 
>>> outgoing
>>> are $0.0295/minute (US).  NuFone, one of the newer providers, is
>>> offering outgoing for $0.02/minute, but they currently do not offer
>>> incoming DIDs for our area (though they do offer 800 numbers), so I 
>>> may
>>> end up using VoicePulse for incoming, and NuFone for outgoing.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This is a question I have. With the normal VoicePulse service $14.99
>> gets you unlimited in/out local calls and 200 minutes of long distance
>> and then 3.9 cents/min above 200 mins.  I can't tell from the 
>> "Connect"
>> service if outgoing local calls are free or billed at 2.95 cents/min.
>>
>> Next question do you lose anything with going with one of the other 
>> SIP
>> providers instead of the IAX connection from VoicePulse?
>>
>> John
>
> VoicePulse gives you unlimited local dialing - but you'll need to find
> out just how "local" that dialing is. As an example, with Bell I can
> call Franklin County as local but with Voicepulse that is long 
> distance.

Just to be clear here. The Connect service from VoicePulse that one 
uses with Asterisk includes unlimited local calling outgoing?  I know 
the SIP service they sell has free local calling. The 
connect.voicepulse.com web site just doesn't say that!

John