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Availability of 0208 DDI's with VOIP service?

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I'm looking for a VOIP provider for a small business (approx. 30 staff), and have had a good quote from Gradwell following a recommendation on this forum. The only problem is that we have a strong preference for 0208 DDI's, and Gradwell are only able to offer 0203 numbers.
We have a block of 40 existing 0208 DDI's (purchased from NTL I believe) which we could port to Gradwell, but there is a charge of £20 per number, and hence an up-front cost of £800 which we'd obviously like to avoid.
Does anyone know of a good, reasonably-priced hosted VOIP provider who can either provide 0208 DDI's, or who does not charge for porting in existing DDI's?
 
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Try contacting Timico directly, I know they do professional VoIP systems and might be able to help. Not sure what they will quote but they do have a reputation for.. well.. not being the cheapest option :) .
 
Hello,

we have a porting agreement with Telewest / NTL / Virgin and charge per block of DDI's if all from the same physical line.

We also offer a hosted Mitel VoIP service which I believe is a similar service to Timico, ie not the cheapest but very good with guaranteed call quality.

Do send me a message if you'd like some more information or some friendly advice on VoIP in general.

David @ Talk Straight :smilet:
 
Thanks for the tip - I had already investigated Voipfone and their call rates were approximately double those of Gradwell for our pattern/volume of outbound calls (about £250/month more expensive). I was hoping to find a more competitive supplier if possible.

We found the gradwell voip platform to always have a ghosted delay in the sound, to a point where you can be replying before the other end has finished. When customers call us on voip we always know when someone is using gradwell ;)

We use voipfone ourselves, handling calls for a number of staff and don't have this problem. Perfect clarify. I can't say we have found voipfone to be expensive at all.

I'm also sure voipfone cap the porting fee to £100 where lots of DDI's are in being talked about.
 
Gradwell user here for the inbound. Never noticed a delay problem with the audio.
They cap 11+ number portings at (Complex DDI block of 11+) - £200

Outbound goes via VoipTalk who are cheap but not that reliable. I wouldn't trust them with a large volume inbound subscription.

Tom - www.mouselike.org
 
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Gradwell user here for the inbound. Never noticed a delay problem with the audio.
They cap 11+ number portings at (Complex DDI block of 11+) - £200

Outbound goes via VoipTalk who are cheap but not that reliable. I wouldn't trust them with a large volume inbound subscription.

Tom - www.mouselike.org

Calls on a trial Gradwell account seem fine (using the X-Lite softphone) - no ghosting as far as I can tell.

Our requirement is for approx. 25 staff inbound/outbound with not particularly heavy call volumes. How many people are there at your location? Have you had any problems with service outages or call quality?
 
Only me and my wife and then a remote worker at another location.
We still use about 3000 minutes per month inbound and outbound though :o

Gradwell has been flawless apart from a few blips which have been resolved quickly. On both outbound via voiptalk and inbound via gradwell we never notice any problems with quality unless it is our own internet line being congested.

VoIP Talk have been ok but often have long lasting outages with no status page or communication from them. I deal with it due to the price :)

Tom - www.mouselike.org
 
Hi
I used to use voip.co.uk and they were great until they ditched residential geeks like me, I now use voiptalk and I find them good.
hope this helps
Key
 
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