[cbhl]

Do you own the actual machines that connect to POTS? Or is this built on top of Twilio or something?

[trome]

Its built on someone's platform, who they are obviously paying through the nose for. Their FAQ says it costs $5 for 250 minute, which is $0.02/min. Comparatively, I sit somewhere around $0.0028/min and I am not trying to optimize my costs by doing LCR on the few tens of thousands of minutes we push. Could probably halve that if I pulled in more providers.

[rahimnathwani]

"Their FAQ says it costs $5 for 250 minute"

That's what they charge sponsors. They must be making a margin on that.

[lionheart]

Really? Your costs are as low as that?

Who are you using for your provider?

[trome]

> Really? Your costs are as low as that?

Uhh, yeah, and I know I'm overpaying too (though its just $20 or so). VOIP is a solved problem in the US if you avoid resellers like Twilio, Nexmo, etc and go directly to either a CLEC or a voice wholesaler.

> Who are you using for your provider? Endstream (NPA-NXX) & Bulk Solutions (Flat rate @ $0.0045/min), but there are cheaper providers out there if you spend a few hours and set up Freeswitch to do LCR.

We bring in another CLEC for our DIDs (though we have a few dozen with em), SMS/MMS & E911 due to price & convenience, Endstream is still shaping up their offerings in the SMS/MMS arena.

[rahimnathwani]

"if you spend a few hours and set up Freeswitch to do LCR"

Is this because the cheaper providers don't cover the whole of the US? I mean, you're using different providers for different number ranges?

[lionheart]

This is through Twilio, although I'll probably have to expand it to other providers in the future to cover more countries.

For starters though, I should be able to grow this from just the USA to 38 countries just through Twilio.