Issues with available numbers and rate centers

[VOIPoTim]

When we restructured the inventory recently, there were a few changes:

1) Areas which we have no inventory in and our carriers with APIs have no inventory in are removed and re-added nightly when new inventory is available. Previously we had a lot of areas where we did a "To Be Assigned" and would order from alternate carriers. Since all but one of our carriers is integrated into the form now, it's rare that TBA would result in anything now if it's not listed already.

2) In terms of Canada, we're still reviewing the situation. In the past we've had coverage in a handful of Canadian cities via one of our US carriers. We had constant complaints about not being able to port into Canada easily and the limited coverage. People would get very upset because we'd have coverage in a Canadian city smaller than a metro Canadian city, etc.

Our feeling is that if we're going to offer Canadian DIDs, we need to just work with a Canadian carrier for those rather that using the limited coverage offered by a US carrier partner. We're still reviewing it to determine what we're doing with Canada and how deep we want to get into it (if we do much, we'd need to start complying with all Canadian taxation/regulation too).

3) The last thing we did was remove some high-cost areas from the list. This should not be many, but there are some areas where it's just not cost effective to offer service in due to the wholesale CLEC costs being 5x as much as metro areas.