View Full Version : Directory Assistance Listiing for Business Lines (411)
chevyman
02-05-2012, 11:40 AM
I referred a friend to get a business Voipo account because he is moving from Centurylink to Frontier, Frontier said they can't port his numbers and would have to have Centurylink forward them to Frontier. Anyway he asked me about if Voipo will be listing his business in Directory Assistance. This i have never though about how that works with voip. With my business i don't promote my phone numbers as my business model is giving my customers the best possible price and not wasting it on staffing phones.
Can someone from Voipo or the voip industry respond on the directory assistance issue, thanks!
VOIPoTim
02-05-2012, 05:09 PM
Unfortunately we're not able to offer directory listings. Since it's somewhat controlled by the traditional telcos, they want to charge us an arm and a leg to list anything. That's kind of ironic considering they charge their own customers to NOT list things.
chevyman
02-06-2012, 02:33 PM
Unfortunately we're not able to offer directory listings. Since it's somewhat controlled by the traditional telcos, they want to charge us an arm and a leg to list anything. That's kind of ironic considering they charge their own customers to NOT list things.
So is there anyway around this, some kind of listing company that does this for a fee, on a one by one bases to get into all the 411 data bases?
VOIPoTim
02-06-2012, 04:14 PM
So is there anyway around this, some kind of listing company that does this for a fee, on a one by one bases to get into all the 411 data bases?
Most of the landline companies will offer it to the public for same fees they would charge us.
usa2k
02-06-2012, 04:18 PM
Searching http://www.dslreports.com/forum/voip may find some ideas.
Such as this older thread http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r24057188-Business-directory-listing-and-VoIP
(Note in that thread one poster RockyBB has since passed away, but was a wealth of knowledge on the forum.)
These days high search results on Google are often more important that dead tree directories.
Calling 411 I can see still being relevant
Goog411 went away
Perhaps the three alternatives in this post are worth considering: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,24909978
(Not sure how easy it is to get listed in them?)