The two providers I use that have been stable and work nicely with asterisk are Teliax and Voipjet (no did's).
I also use Junction Networks but haven't use them heavily enough to recommend them.

JD

Nick Estes wrote:
Good providers that interface well with Asterisk are hard to find.  Of those around, I've only used iConnectHere (sip) and VoicePulse Connect (iax).  The only problem with VoicePulse is they don't yet have AZ area codes, but the service has been great for the year or two I've been using it, and the price is reasonable too.  ICH has a cheap way to demo it, but I wasn't happy with their service at all.  Maybe it's improved since I last used it, but I'm far happier with voicepulse, especially due to their iax support.

Get an 800 number.
If you're just looking to mess around with voip without spending anything and without access to anyone in particular, free world dialup and iaxtel are good to use.  I have both of those in my asterisk setup, mostly because I can, and also because it has, on a few occasions, been a nice cheap way to talk to people.

Of the billions of non-asterisk compatible providers out there, I've used Packet8 and Vonage (still use vonage for company phone/fax, until voicepulse gets az area codes anyway).  Of the two, my opinion is that Vonage's service is a little better, and Packet8's support is a little better; although, both are certainly usable.

Supposedly you can plug the phone output from asterisk into an X100P or tdm card.  If you want to be able to receive/send more than one phone call you'd have to sign up for their softphone option which costs extra.  For my money I'd pick someone else since they don't support asterisk directly. 
I'm also interested in anyone else's experience with asterisk compatible providers, especially those that do iax.

    --Nick

I've had poor experience with:
LiveVoip (bankrupt)
VirtualPhoneline 
Sixtel/IAX.cc
Broadvoice




On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, der.hans wrote:

moin, moin,

JD wanna post the recommendations from your slides?

Anybody else have recommendations for or against certain providers?

ciao,

der.hans

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