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by davew

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I am trying to come up with a plan to migrate my companies external phone calls to Voip due to the fact that 97% of our calls are long distance.

The problem I am faced with is that the Local Rural telco is holding our phone number hostage, We need to keep 2 of our old numbers because they are in magazines / business cards / articles.

1 option is remote call forwarding, however I have yet to find a VOIP provider that can provider phone numbers in our rate center which means that we will be paing long distance for every inbound call when it gets forwarded to the closest available rate center.

Any idea???

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by oz_media

Having worked in telecom for 10 years and installing several dozen different VoIP systems/solutions, I have seen this many times, especially in remote parts of BC where almost everything is an LD call to Vancouver.

In MOST cases, it is far easier and cheaper to simply reprint ads, phone book entries and conduct a full mail out or notification on monthly invoices than to forward calls. You MAY want to have a call forwarding service setup for perhaps 4-6 weeks, after changing but then kill it and work from there with your new numbers.

It's a pain, but again this is a major transition not a new paint job on your building.

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