LNP, compliance, and configuration support to resellers

[VOIPoTim]

To answer your questions.

1) LNP is still pending. We have been transitioning to a third-party LNP provider recently and going all paperless with it, so we are still factoring in how the paperless process will work with resellers. More info soon.

2) Full E911 service can be activated on an account for $1/Mo. If you activate it, your user will also be able to update their address/manage it in their control panel just like you can as a VOIPo customer.

E911 is required in the US by the FCC for full-service (two-way) accounts. Since many users will resell outside of the country or offer partial services vs two-way, we are leaving this up to the reseller. We'll provide the ability to add E911 to any account, but won't be requiring it on any resold accounts since we don't know the circumstances surrounding the account and are acting as a wholesale provider.

3) Offering business service is fine.

4) Every user has a control panel similar to vPanel. You as the reseller have a master panel to manage accounts, add new ones, set limits, etc. In your panel, you can also setup a logo/company name which will be used in all of your user panels so that it's fully branded.

The user panel is very similar to vPanel. It has all very similar functionality except the BETA features are not offered due to support concerns with them. You can disable specific pages in it through the use of "account templates". So if you wanted to charge extra for some features, you could create different control panel templates with certain features not in them and only assign the "full" one to some users.

[goldentouch]

ticket JVQ-423910
local number porting.....

the majority of new clients would like to keep their number they have had for years. if lnp to voipo.com is possible why wouldnt it be possible for resellers?

[VOIPoTim]

ticket JVQ-423910
local number porting.....

the majority of new clients would like to keep their number they have had for years. if lnp to voipo.com is possible why wouldn't it be possible for resellers?

We're still determining how to structure it and the costs for resellers. Basically it all depends on what upstream carriers are involved. In metro areas, we don't pay for number transfers so we can offer this for free or very low cost in those areas.

In smaller areas where we use secondary carriers like Level3, the cost goes up a lot and varies.

We are working on a way to structure this so that we can offer it free or low cost in the areas we can and for a small fee in the other areas.

I don't have anything online showing the breakdown yet, but for anyone interested here is one of my millions of spreadsheets I can share.

http://www.voipo.com/RC-Jan09.xls

Everything in Tier 0 will be free/very very low cost. The higher the tier to more expensive it is to provide numbers in that area.

Once we have the details worked out, we'll post more. Should be within the next few days.

[zevin]

I am in tier 3

It's got to cost buckets... great!