Feb 1 Launch: Toll-Free Numbers, Online Faxing, Virtual Numbers

**fisamo** · 01-11-2008 08:49 PM

As long as all your problems aren't users' ISP related and upstream-provider related, you'll be OK in the end.

Sorry, it's been a long week, and sometimes I need to vent, too.

Now on the serious side. I also appreciate the journey--at the very least, it's been nice to have a few free DIDs and channels to play with on my own * system. But it's also been good to help build a service from the ground up with the ability to provide feedback from a user's perspective very early in the process.

I'm really hoping for some good, low-cost options (for low use, at least in the near term--seems like Express will meet the need) with the option to build up/add services as I see fit. I don't know as if I'd take on a VOIPo line as primary at this time--there are a few options that I would like to have that you haven't developed yet (phone-based control panel--ability to program/activate/deactivate CFWD over a phone, for example), and you'd have to prove yourselves in a production environment before I'd put the WAF at risk...

**NY Tel Guy** · 01-11-2008 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by fisamo

As long as all your problems aren't users' ISP related and upstream-provider related, you'll be OK in the end.

Sorry, it's been a long week, and sometimes I need to vent, too.

Now on the serious side. I also appreciate the journey--at the very least, it's been nice to have a few free DIDs and channels to play with on my own * system. But it's also been good to help build a service from the ground up with the ability to provide feedback from a user's perspective very early in the process.

I'm really hoping for some good, low-cost options (for low use, at least in the near term--seems like Express will meet the need) with the option to build up/add services as I see fit. I don't know as if I'd take on a VOIPo line as primary at this time--there are a few options that I would like to have that you haven't developed yet (phone-based control panel--ability to program/activate/deactivate CFWD over a phone, for example), and you'd have to prove yourselves in a production environment before I'd put the WAF at risk...

Sniff.....all of this mutual admiration stuff is making me cry....

**gatorrobin** · 01-13-2008 04:39 PM

So this is kinda like a business plan?

The 500 mins/month for a virtual number is going to be a hard sell when every other VOIP service that I'm aware of includes unlimited minutes on the virtual number beside the monthly charge for the number itself.

**VOIPoTim** · 01-13-2008 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by gatorrobin

So this is kinda like a business plan?

The 500 mins/month for a virtual number is going to be a hard sell when every other VOIP service that I'm aware of includes unlimited minutes on the virtual number beside the monthly charge for the number itself.

Remember this is also forwarding out to a PSTN number, not a straight up VoIP DID. Everyone else charges per min for that.

**usa2k** · 01-13-2008 11:24 PM

I've yet to see a virtual Windsor Ontario number from any provider.

Any virtual Canadian numbers in your future?

**VOIPoTim** · 01-13-2008 11:47 PM

Originally Posted by usa2k

I've yet to see a virtual Windsor Ontario number from any provider.

Any virtual Canadian numbers in your future?

Yes, but not solid ETA. We intend to launch a full service Canadian offering across the board, but need to get a few things squared away to make sure we're good regulatory wise there. I don't forsee any issues with that as it's almost all just paperwork, but the plan is basically to finish up the US launch and then add that to the mix.