[Cialug] OT: buying a phone number

[Kenneth Younger]

I know that Google Voice has 515 numbers - I have one. I wonder what
the difference is.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:00 PM, David Bierce <david at bierce.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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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>> Matthew Nuzum
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>>
>> ♫ You're never fully dressed without a smile! ♫
>>
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> Matthew Nuzum
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