kim
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-25
S. Ontario
 ·Cogeco Cable
| Voip 800 # possible ?
What I'm trying to do is find out how to get an 800# and avoid long distance charges for the incoming calls.
I called my local cable provider Cogeco. I was told that they don't offer 800 service through Voip. Is this something inherent to the structure of Voip or just this carrier?
Bell quoted 7 cents/minute which is their long distance rate or a few plans which work out to ~ .03/min
I'm wondering if there's a connection type that would avoid this and thought Voip would be the answer.
Anyone have experience with 800 #'s and forwarding?
TIA,
Kim
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drew
Reformation
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Port Orchard, WA
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| When my step-mother had an 800 for her home-office, they billed by the minute... she said it was more expensive for her than it would be for most people to have made the call using their long distance.
I know it's not VoIP, but are you trying to take on the cost for someone else or ...?
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kim
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-25
S. Ontario | I'm actually doing this for a friends business. I'm trying to eliminate the cost of long distance to the business. |
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RockyBB
Premium
join:2005-01-31
Longmont, CO
| if you're looking for free, stop looking. there is no such aminal as free minutes on a toll-free number. Long ago there was a company that offered free minutes, but you had to pay a monthly fee of $1500 + a T1 loop fee of about double the market price. VOIP doesn't make stuff free, it makes it less expensive than traditional services, usually by packaging multiple services into a single package. |
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kim
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-25
S. Ontario | Well I guess I should have been more specific. I have Voip on my home line. I do not pay for long distance. That's where I got 'free' from. Bad choice of words I guess. |
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RockyBB
Premium
join:2005-01-31
Longmont, CO | so you have a VOIP service for a fee, and that fee includes long distance minutes. |
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kim
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-25
S. Ontario | Almost... on my service there is no such thing as long distance. They are all local calls. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
| reply to kim
Heya Kim,
So you want people to call an 800-number, and then have that number forward to your friend's business? Yeah, you can absolutely do that. Just sign up with any VoIP provider that offers 800 service and forwarding. You're going to pay per-minute inbound for the call however and might even have to pay again for the outbound "forwarded" portion of the call. |
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kim
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-25
S. Ontario | No work around for that eh? Dagnabbit! |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
| said by kim  :No work around for that eh? Dagnabbit! They could switch their entire phone service to a VoIP provider, but that would incur additional costs too. |
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kim
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-25
S. Ontario | That's still a possibility. |
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PX Eliezer
Premium
join:2008-08-09
New Jersey | You should (also) be posting in the main Voip forum---
»VOIP Tech Chat
and looking directly as well at some of the major Voip providers such as Voip.MS (which is Canadian), CallCentric, and others. |
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kim
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-25
S. Ontario | I didn't know we had a voip tech chat forum. Thank you. |
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