[Cialug] OT: buying a phone number

[Matthew Nuzum]

As it turns out, Twilio's upstream providers do not handle 515 area codes
so I can't even port one over to their platform. Sounds political. I can't
fathom why such a thing would happen.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> Sounds interesting, Let me see if I can find someone who wants to pay for
> some work along these lines. Thanks for the tips!
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com>wrote:
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>> Yes, you could order a landline and give that number to twilio to port
>> out. By the time you’re done it will cost about $100 in install and first
>> month costs. If you aren’t picky about the number I’ll let you port one of
>> ours out for pizza and beer at the next LUG meeting. ****
>>
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>> *From:* cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *Matthew Nuzum
>> *Sent:* Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:57 PM
>> *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> *Subject:* [Cialug] OT: buying a phone number****
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>> I'm playing with Twilio, which is a pretty sweet service. Unfortunately
>> they have no 515 area code phone numbers, but they say you can buy one from
>> another carrier and then port it over to them [1]. Does anyone know how you
>> buy a phone number? Can I just call Qwest and order one? I find it
>> interesting how they say they have one for nearly every area except Alaska
>> and Hawaii, but none in 515. Maybe the caucuses used them all up.****
>>
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>> [1] https://www.twilio.com/faq#phone-numbers-1
>> ****
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