[Cialug] OT: buying a phone number

[David Bierce]

I have found most national VOIP providers don't offer service on numbers in an Iowa exchange.  I'm not sure who the backbone provider for Vitelity and Velocity are but every one of the big name nation VOIP trunk providers said they don't service the Iowa market because the telco laws here are messed for an out of state carrier.  I'm certain Dave would have more insight into that.  I just remember ATT, bandwidth.com and even earthlink couldn't get their backbone to grab Iowa numbers.


On Jan 13, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Matthew Nuzum 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!
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> 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
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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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