Estimating SIP Trunk costs
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Voip.ms vs twilio? Anything stand out besides cost per minute?
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@obsolesce said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
Voip.ms vs twilio? Anything stand out besides cost per minute?
Not particularly. Twilio has only two US based POPs but they are on real solid connections. They also have POPs in Asia while VoIP.ms does not. Both have European POPs.
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Oh, you will pay taxes on Twilio services if you are in the US because they are a US company (26 states atm).
VoIP.ms is a Canadian company and only collects taxes from Canadian customers.
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Who still charges for long distance calls? We had POTS lines from Verizon not that long ago, I think we still have one for fire alarm, we've never had any long distance charges, ever. That's a relic from 90's and before.
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@jaredbusch said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
Just for an update, Twilio is down to $0.007 / minute for inbound and $0.0045 / minute outbound.
I've switched to Twilio.
So far I like it.Just need to find some 3rd party plugin that has a nice web gui!!
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@jaredbusch said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
Just for an update, Twilio is down to $0.007 / minute for inbound and $0.0045 / minute outbound.
That makes a nearly $500 difference in my example of
10,400 * 15 * $0.007 = $1,092and almost $100 difference in the10,400 * 5 * $0.007 = $364example from above.
holy cow that is cheap!
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We plan to add Twilio for our Mexican lines.
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Wish all SIP providers would have a nice beautiful console like Twilio's!!
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@scottalanmiller said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
We plan to add Twilio for our Mexican lines.
Why wouldn't you use it for your American lines?
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@fateknollogee said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
@scottalanmiller said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
We plan to add Twilio for our Mexican lines.
Why wouldn't you use it for your American lines?
cost of change is higher the the savings.
That is why I don't switch any existing services.
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Their usage numbers are probablty as low as mine.. When you use only a few hundred minutes a month the ROI on the savings will takes years and years to recoup for the hour or two that you have to pay someone to get it all migrated.
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@jaredbusch said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
cost of change is higher the the savings.
That is why I don't switch any existing services.
I thought most everyone will waive porting fees these days?
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@fateknollogee said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
@jaredbusch said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
cost of change is higher the the savings.
That is why I don't switch any existing services.
I thought most everyone will waive porting fees these days?
It takes me up to 2 hours of work to gather, submit, and follow through on a port.
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@jaredbusch said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
@fateknollogee said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
@jaredbusch said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
cost of change is higher the the savings.
That is why I don't switch any existing services.
I thought most everyone will waive porting fees these days?
It takes me up to 2 hours of work to gather, submit, and follow through on a port.
C'mon JB, with your skill level, that's stuff you can do with your eyes closed!
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@fateknollogee said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
@jaredbusch said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
@fateknollogee said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
@jaredbusch said in Estimating SIP Trunk costs:
cost of change is higher the the savings.
That is why I don't switch any existing services.
I thought most everyone will waive porting fees these days?
It takes me up to 2 hours of work to gather, submit, and follow through on a port.
C'mon JB, with your skill level, that's stuff you can do with your eyes closed!
Not hard, but it simply takes time. If you get even a single number wrong, your port will be fucked.
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Tried a few more times and eventually it worked.
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Thanks for this post, @JaredBusch . I got the previous month's bill from TPX and am going to start going through it to see how much we can save by switching from our PRI.
We have to upgrade (replace) our Mitel/ShoreTel Shoregear T1, so that will cost a few grand.
