International Dialing

[pecossunset]

I have a client that uses international LD a lot. They are going to double in size as far as staff. Right now we are using Cox for our international carrier and local PRI. They dial 9 then their intl. number.

I am considering an option to save them money of installing a few VONAGE analog lines, connect them to the Nortel MICS on an analog trunk card as regular POTS lines set up a separate dial pool code like [ 7 ] and that will connect them to the vonage analog lines. Local and domestic calls will use [ 9 ] as usual.

Vonage is pretty cheap compared to Cox. I am wondering what options you guys have used? Does Vonage have clear service to lets say Canada and China ( they call these countries a lot ) and they talk for a long time many times the calls are over a half hour because it is the customer and sales departments?

What is your suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[belevedere]

In this area, most if not all telco providers have scrapped analog lines to the premisis and replaced it all with a router on the customer site that converts to analog to the customers' system. They work well, with very little quality issues.

 

[Sympology]

Why are you using a separate dialling code? You'd be better off using lease cost routing based on the number dialled surely?

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[pecossunset]

This is for international calling so there is no way to determine what the cost is for every single country and region in that country. I have checked with Vonage and the seem to be for home use only. They have a usage restriction that seems to imply that if the service is used a lot they will bill for extra charges. Does anyone know of an internet based service that will provide global long distance service via VOIP at a flat rate?

Thanks