[Cialug] OT: buying a phone number

[chris rheinherren]

Probably not considered to be a large enough market.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:50, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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:
>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> 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. ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> *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****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> 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.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.twilio.com/faq#phone-numbers-1
>>> ****
>>>
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