DIDs are a necessity in Canada and the US, globally for that matter, to launch a VoIP business. The DID is the local number that is routed to your VoIP handset or phone via a pbx or gateway. For example if you wanted to give a US number to a friend in Mexico, they would need to buy a US DID and this number could ring their mexican IP phone or PBX. In addition, you can use DIDs to run a calling card business, ISP, or VoIP service, once again you use the phone numbers - DIDs - as the link to your cluster of services. If the gateway connects to the PSTN through digital trunks, the gateway owner buys from the trunk provider any desired number of DIDs to identify IP phones on the private network. The private network being your clients or as a consumer ... you.
My personal opinion on price is that I rather pay $5 for my DID and no monthly fee other than this...a lot of firms try to sell DIDs for $2.50 or more and have $0.01 or $0.008 charges per minute. You have no choice but to pay the per minute rates if you are running a Calling Card business or ISP because of the trunking costs. VocalScape can easily source DIDs at $0.001, which is 800% cheaper than what the competition is providing you. This is important because as a calling card company you can provide services through-out the US and Canada and not have POPs. One of the reasons we are able to supply DIDs at such a phenominal rate is because we are a Turn-Key VoIP Business Solution provider. If you purchase a turn-key system, we can also enable the DIDs per calling area. For example, one supplier can supply over 10,000 different DIDs and we can facilitate the others for you via NtelX, our telecommunications firm. With this type of pricing, you can give yourself more freedom in your business model...
If you want a business model like Vonage- than we have the DIDs and solution so you can do it.
For more information about getting phone numbers in the US and Canada, and sending traffic from the DIDs to your Gateway, contact gibson@vocalscape.com. In addition, if you want more information about the turn-key calling card business, VoIP Business like Vonage, or termination- post or email us!
I am seeking data and/or information on the business model of Vonage and/or calling card business and would like to start seek as much information on DID as possible..
Regards,
Charles Holloway
Posted by: Charles Holloway | March 04, 2005 at 04:07 PM
I too would be interested in learning more about launching a business similar to vonage.
thanks
Posted by: Macneely | March 04, 2005 at 06:59 PM
We are interested in suppling customers VoIP service in Canada, with Canadian DIDs
Posted by: Derrick | March 10, 2005 at 12:12 PM
Hi,
I am looking for some more information about DID numbers.
1-DID divert the calls to IP address of a Switch or VoIP Gateway?
2-DID numbers, each number for each personal/customer?
3- Can we use DID only for outgoing calls?
What I would like to know:
1-Can DID number forward the calls to landline phone number?
2-Can somebody receives calls via DID number? If yes then how?
How and from where to get DID numbers?
Cost?
Flat-rate?, Per-month?, Or per-minute charges?
Posted by: Muhammad Iftikhar | March 17, 2005 at 02:16 PM
I'm interested in more infromation on the DID's. I'm starting a VoIP business and I'm going to need DID.
Posted by: Carl Williams | November 08, 2005 at 04:32 PM
I am willing to set up a voip business. Is voip possible without high speed internet servce? Is there any way we can provide the voip call termination service through any PSTN line arrounnd the world. My goal is to set up a company that would use the regular land phone and use voip world wide. If there is a solution to my question, how much money I need to invest to start with. Please help.
Thanks
Posted by: M.Mohsin | November 19, 2005 at 12:24 PM
In response to M. Moshin
It would be similar to a Calling Card Business, but they would call a number which they can have on speed dial, when they call from that number it recoginised the ANI or Caller ID and allows them to make a long distance call without entering a PIN.
This system on average is about $50,000 USD to set-up. I would be willing to discuss partnership, etc to reduce costs, but that is on average the initial investment.
Sincerely,
Ryan Gibson, VP
Gibson@vocalsape.com
http://www.vocalscape.com
Posted by: Ryan | November 22, 2005 at 12:07 AM
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Posted by: Clarence Duncan | March 07, 2006 at 10:32 PM