I am going to buy a 1800 number. Does anyone know a cheap and reliable place to get one?

What did you want it to do? I mean - did you want a service / voice mail or did you want it to just terminate to your phone line?

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Greetings:

www.kall8.com

Thank you.

I can also recommend kall8.com

Just throwing in a name. (Have not used their service.) www.telcan.net

www.gotvmail.net is good from what i hear, although i personally have never used it. i use angel.com which is great and easy to setup, although i would like to see better per minute prices.

I just got another 1877 number from kall8. They provide a great service, I recommend them.

Originally posted by ruler
I just got another 1877 number from kall8. They provide a great service, I recommend them.

Another bid for Kall8 here. They are very affordable, friendly, and set up your account pretty fast.

Cheers

telcan.net is good for me so far. no complaints.

If you'd like to avoid telco bills, i'd like to reccomend that you look into a voice over ip solution... for more info check out:

http://www.vonage.com/

There are alot of other companies that do the same thing, however this is the only one i remember off the top of my head. Search for voip on google for more. Hope that helps.
-Di

These sound great. I've been looking for some good 800 providers.

Does kall8 or telcan "brand" the 800 numbers of their customers? Meaning if someone dials the 800 number will they first here something along the lines of "(very brief music/tone) Kall8" and then be connected to the call?

We use freedom voice, its great.

Try out ringcentral.net as well - their 800works lets you keep your assigned 800# and you can move it. Plus, they offer an unlimited plan with unlimited inbound 800# minutes AND call transfers w/ multiple extensions.

I am a UK company. Anyone know whether I can get a 1800 number and redirect that number to a UK number?

We use freedom voice, its great.
Thanks CDX. We have been thinking about getting them. I spoke with one person over there & she said it was great. Just been leery about getting it. Glad to hear someone else is happy with their service

telcan doesn't brand the numbers. when you call the 1-800 number, it goes directly to the number you have it redirected to without any interference.

Originally posted by Borne
Does kall8 or telcan "brand" the 800 numbers of their customers? Meaning if someone dials the 800 number will they first here something along the lines of "(very brief music/tone) Kall8" and then be connected to the call?

Nope. You get connected directly to the number you specify.

Originally posted by joelmoss
I am a UK company. Anyone know whether I can get a 1800 number and redirect that number to a UK number?

Did find somebody who did this ages ago, but it cost a fortune. I'll see if i can find it ....

We use uReach, it's great (we've got a 877 number there)

telcan is nice


uk person - it can be directed to any phone number (charges apply)

http://angel.com is the most powerful I have found. It's very easy to use and has the availability to seamlessly integrate with a database of yours via API.

Richard

you can start by calling your phone company and asking them

I would personally reccomend a hardware PBX system with some type of unlimited long distance plan from your telco.

(We have several telephone lines coming into our NOC from Verizon on the "Freedom Plan" which entails unlimited long distance to U.S./Canada, and extremely low rates to most other countries.)

We are using Primus for our toll free number. The way they set your rate is by you negotiating with an account rep. The rate we have is lower than anything I have seen published. I'm pretty happy with the service, it has been reliable, caller ID still works, and getting set up was super easy. We just get an invoive every month for the minutes used (30/6 billing, which is also nice), and that is it.

We have also been looking setting up a soft PBX system.. www.asterisk.org -- absoloutely incredible stuff.

I reccomend accessline.biz great prices and you get free minutes every month. I have had 0 problems with them.

Check with your telco, I was able to get a "Personal Toll Free" number from mine for $4.95/month easy enough. It likely depends on your line too, if it's a business line it will cost more, I opted for a residential line for my business since yellow pages ads weren't important and that was about the only benefit of having one.

Angel.com is actually a great choice - a little more expensive than your Kall8, but it has a lot more features and options.

Boris

Originally posted by ddent
We are using Primus for our toll free number. The way they set your rate is by you negotiating with an account rep. The rate we have is lower than anything I have seen published.
Can you give specifics?

:)

Originally posted by brevig
http://angel.com is the most powerful I have found. It's very easy to use and has the availability to seamlessly integrate with a database of yours via API.

Richard

I have used angel.com in the past as well and was extremely please with the products and service :)

Try Ask8.com, we used them and prices start arounf 10 bucks a month for basic 800 plan

I use 800 # with Freedomvoice from www.freedomvoiceservices.com

Cant go wrong with followme live number transfer and voicemail.

:)

PNG www.pngcom.com

Telcan www.telcan.com
I actually met some guys from there a few days ago. They are a great bunch and really know what they are doing, my next lines are going to be from them.

We use FreedomVoice. They have a really nice "hunt and find" system along with other cool stuff. Check them out at www.freedomvoice.com.

I'd check out RiteRate.
Rates are really cheap, like 99 cents per number
www.riterateld.com/smallbusiness (http://www.riterateld.com/smallbusiness)
-John

FreedomVoice is great. We went thru a reseller & even became one. What sold us was they are in the final stages of helping the US troops to be able to call home - a lot easier than when I was in the military back in Desert Storm. They also suppport Motorola & Star Search as well.

Originally posted by joelmoss
I am a UK company. Anyone know whether I can get a 1800 number and redirect that number to a UK number?

VirtualPBX (http://www.virtualpbx.com) allows you to forward your 800# to an international#. They do require that you make a $1000 deposit, though.

We use Teligent! Very affordable!

My business uses http://www.accessline.biz. So far so good. Friendly support, quick setup, low rates. Haven't had any problems.

You get 200 minutes/month with your vanity number for $10.00/month. Once you go over the 200 it's only 4.9cents/minute.

I recommend just going with whoever provides your long distance phone service, depending who it is it can normally be bundled onto a business account for cheap.

FREEDOM Voice... awesome...

I just went through my local phone company. $8.00 a month and the 877 and 866 numbers correspond to my businesses primary business number.

We have been looking at freedom voice as well ... but their CDN long-distance rates can get a bit high if you're using their services to patch a network of call centres and NOC's together (12c USD / minute, almost 3x what we are currently paying).

Their actual phone system looks amazing!

Anybody know if there is a company with similar services (voicemail/patching system) but at a better long-distance rate?

Do any of these online toll-free companies do 1-800 #'s for canadian companies?

telcan
they have free vanity numbers. (you can search for the number you want, something like 1-877-your name)

If you just want 3 extentions for a low price, plus even more features, I definatly recommend tollfreelive.com. That is who KIOD Networking uses. Plans start at $9.95

What about using these solutions with Asterisk, the linux-based PBX software? If you used vonage, you could do this I suppose.

Check out nufone. You'll have to email their sales. But they can provision a toll free with IAX or SIP.

Here're your top choices:
1. Telcan
2. Gotvmail
3. Tollfreemax