Dial-1 and 800 provider for low volume user? [Telecom]
John R. Levine
upstate NY, the family beach house in NJ and two toll-free numbers
provided by ECG. Their service is fine but their rates are kind of
high and they have a lot of nuisance fees, notably a $5 low usage fee
when my total bill is under $10 which it is about half the time. We
are in what's known as a Tier 3 area, a rural non-Bell telco, which a
lot of low cost LD companies won't serve. The beach house is VZ
territory, no problem there.
The bills fluctuate a lot, notably the beach house has a $0 bill for
eight months of the year, and about $25 when people are there in the
summer. One toll-free number terminates here, [and the other] one at
my sister's house in another Tier 3 area in Vermont.
I'm looking for someone else who will provide good service at lower
cost, without so many nuisance fees. Any suggestions? Poking around
on the net I found a company in Maine called Pioneer Telephone that
looks promising with reasonable Tier 3 rates of 3.3 cpm and no monthly
minimum if I get billed online. Anyone use them?
R's, John
PS: I'm NOT looking for dialaround, VoIP, calling cards, Skype,
Magicjack, or anything else. I need something that will work when my
wife picks up the phone and calls her mother, or my daughter calls
home on the 800 number because she forgot her wallet. They're
perfectly able to use all that other stuff, but they has better things
to worry about and my wife would think it silly to have to do funky
stuff just to save 1.5 cents/min.
Sidney Zafran
> For several years I have had the long distance service for my house in
> upstate NY, the family beach house in NJ and two toll-free numbers
> provided by ECG. ...snip...
>
> I'm looking for someone else who will provide good service at lower
> cost, without so many nuisance fees. Any suggestions? ...snip...
We have been satisfied with the service provided by OneSuite.com
Ref: http://www.onesuite.com/
John Levine
>> Magicjack, or anything else.
>We have been satisfied with the service provided by OneSuite.com
>Ref: http://www.onesuite.com/
Unless I'm missing something, onesuite is dialaround.
R's,
John
Joseph Singer
> For several years I have had the long distance service for my house
> in upstate NY, the family beach house in NJ and two toll-free
> numbers provided by ECG. Their service is fine but their rates are
> kind of high and they have a lot of nuisance fees, notably a $5 low
> usage fee when my total bill is under $10 which it is about half the
> time. We are in what's known as a Tier 3 area, a rural non-Bell
> telco, which a lot of low cost LD companies won't serve. The beach
> house is VZ territory, no problem there.
>
> The bills fluctuate a lot, notably the beach house has a $0 bill for
> eight months of the year, and about $25 when people are there in the
> summer. One toll-free number terminates here, [and the other] one
> at my sister's house in another Tier 3 area in Vermont.
>
> I'm looking for someone else who will provide good service at lower
> cost, without so many nuisance fees. Any suggestions? Poking
> around on the net I found a company in Maine called Pioneer
> Telephone that looks promising with reasonable Tier 3 rates of 3.3
> cpm and no monthly minimum if I get billed online. Anyone use them?
I use Kall8 <http://www.kall8.com> which is $2/month for 866/877/888
numbers and $5/month for genuine 800 numbers. 6 cents/minute for
calls directed in the US or Canada. Other rates to forward to other
international destinations. Service only works in the US. Also $2 to
activate 866/877/888 and $5 for 800 numbers.
danny burstein
[snip]
> I use Kall8 <http://www.kall8.com> which is $2/month for 866/877/888
> numbers and $5/month for genuine 800 numbers. 6 cents/minute for
> calls directed in the US or Canada. Other rates to forward to other
> international destinations. Service only works in the US. Also $2
> to activate 866/877/888 and $5 for 800 numbers.
A second vote for Kall8. They're not the absolute cheapest,
but they are competitive and....
.... and, they've got a superb web interface which
gives you full, realtime, control of your number.
So, for example, you can tell it to forward your calls
to your cellphone during the day, and your home at 5 pm,
and then over the weekend to your brother-in-law's.
You can also pick and choose, down to the local
level, where to accept calls from. So if you don't
want to be bothered by wrong numbers (or worse, see [a])
from Texas and Virginia, you can block them out.
As an aside, if you're using a personal toll free number,
you're probably best off getting an "877" prefix. That
way you're less likely to be bothered by misdialings.
[a] FCC regulations mandate that the "owner" (or "carrier") for a toll
free number "kick back" something like 50 cents if the call
originates at a "pay phone". So... there are people who, yes, will
sit at the pay phone in the laundromat and call out to them. Each
of those calls to your number costs you (after the pass through,
etc.) a dollar or so. (Exact numbers depend on the carrier, etc.).
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John Levine
>numbers and $5/month for genuine 800 numbers.
I'm familiar with them and they seem swell, but they don't offer dial-1
service, do they?
R's,
John
PS: Is it just me or has reading comprehension plummeted in recent
years?
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It's just you.
John David Galt
> I'm looking for someone else who will provide good service at lower
> cost, without so many nuisance fees. Any suggestions? Poking around
> on the net I found a company in Maine called Pioneer Telephone that
> looks promising with reasonable Tier 3 rates of 3.3 cpm and no monthly
> minimum if I get billed online. Anyone use them?
I've used them for years and am very satisfied with them. In my area
they're a reseller of Global Crossing.
Robert Neville
>I've used them for years and am very satisfied with them. In my area
>they're a reseller of Global Crossing.
I've used Pioneer in the past as well and was very pleased with them.