Welcome to the Broadvox Direct forum.

First of all I would like to thank Marcelo Rodriquez for the gracious offer in establishing this forum for Broadvox Direct.

Here I invite everyone to join in on conversations regarding both VoIP as a technology as well as Broadvox Direct. I will be happy to address your questions and inquiries as well as share upcoming Broadvox Direct news and industry views.

Regards,

Jeffery Williams
President
Broadvox Direct, Llc
www.broadvoxdirect.com

I'm pleased to be the first member of your new User Group. I look forward to continuing to learn much from you regarding VoIP and Broadvox. I have very much enjoyed reading your postings on the DSLReports Forum.

Best wishes.

[marcelo]

Jeff,

It is a great privilege to host the Broadvox Users Group on Voxilla, and are very grateful for your willingness to offer members of this rapidly growing online community your thoughts and help.

I too enjoy your postings on DSL Reports Voip forum (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/voip), and the lively conversations they engendered. As a regular user and participant of DSLReports, I am very pleased you will continue to participate on that very fine site as well.

[prayer]

I have been enjoying your replies to the many varied questions. The technical answers have been the most enlightening of all.

I'll start the ball rolling with some issues of the weekend. About 10/11 digit dialing. I lived in an area (or maybe two) that had 10 digit dialing. I don't recall getting a wrong number but if there is a delay to tell if there is only 7 digits then maybe I never exceeded it. Maybe one person's suggestion to have user select all 10 digits or option to have 10/7 digit dialing. So many metro areas are now getting overlays that skipping "my" area code in dialing just doesn't seem all that important anymore.

I remember in 50's in MI we SAID the 4 digits to an operator to call locally. In 60's a new system put in direct dial and WOW we got dials on our phones! We could still dial 4 digits. Then a few years later they sold out to Michigan Bell and mandatory 7 digit dialing was turned on. What an uproar that was for the locals.

Way back then we called one long distance call annually to grandma and kept it to 3 minutes, $6.85. I vaugely recall minimum wage was 35 cents / hour in mid - late fifties ? Now is about $6, imagine a 3 minute call at 18 x $6 ?. You could have three UNLIMITED plans from 3 companies for the same hours worked! as that one 3 minute call way back then.

I just ordered a Siprua last week from Voxilla and am expecting it real soon now. I will look forward to what you offer to dsl reports readers.

jwilliams. Just came over from dslreports anxious to get some posts going on this baby!

[Good_Ol_Dan]

Here in the Houston area, we now have 10 digit dialing for everything. While it was a PITA initially, dialing 11 digits for every call using Vonage actually made things easier... didn't have to think about which calls needed the "1" and which ones didn't. Dialing all numbers was exactly the same.

Dan

[Good_Ol_Dan]

Hehe... Vonage has been up and down all afternoon... I'm ready to move!

Jeff... help, quick!

Dan

I enjoyed following your posts on Broadband Reports. I am very new to VOIP and plan on giving it a try.

Jeff

Came over to this forum from dsl reports. Very much appreciated Mr Williams postings at dsl reports and hope for more of the same here.

The concept being 7 digit or 10 digit dialing will be the same as in legacy deployments such as that of SBC, for example.

One of the main reasons for 10 digit dialing is that in some areas, as a reult of area code splits, you will have one part of a given area code that is a local call, while other sections may not be. Additionally another area code, in whole or part, may also be local to you. For that reason 10 digit dialing offers uniformity.

Broadvox gives you the choice! Within your own area code you may dial 7 digits, or elect to dial 10, or even 11 if you prefer. Our switch will prepend your own area code when completing your call, if you have not already included it.

Being that Broadvox Direct offers entire area codes as local calling areas, the need for 10 digit calling is not there and as such we can give customers a choice.

As an alternate example we enforce 10 digit dialing throughout most markets with our enterprise subsidiary. The reason being? We do not offer unlimited calling, in all cases, to entire area codes, therefore 10 digit dialing is required in order to properly account for that call traffic.

Originally Posted by prayer

I have been enjoying your replies to the many varied questions. The technical answers have been the most enlightening of all.

I'll start the ball rolling with some issues of the weekend. About 10/11 digit dialing. I lived in an area (or maybe two) that had 10 digit dialing. I don't recall getting a wrong number but if there is a delay to tell if there is only 7 digits then maybe I never exceeded it. Maybe one person's suggestion to have user select all 10 digits or option to have 10/7 digit dialing. So many metro areas are now getting overlays that skipping "my" area code in dialing just doesn't seem all that important anymore.

I remember in 50's in MI we SAID the 4 digits to an operator to call locally. In 60's a new system put in direct dial and WOW we got dials on our phones! We could still dial 4 digits. Then a few years later they sold out to Michigan Bell and mandatory 7 digit dialing was turned on. What an uproar that was for the locals.

Way back then we called one long distance call annually to grandma and kept it to 3 minutes, $6.85. I vaugely recall minimum wage was 35 cents / hour in mid - late fifties ? Now is about $6, imagine a 3 minute call at 18 x $6 ?. You could have three UNLIMITED plans from 3 companies for the same hours worked! as that one 3 minute call way back then.

I just ordered a Siprua last week from Voxilla and am expecting it real soon now. I will look forward to what you offer to dsl reports readers.