TIPS Best price for 10 inbound channels?

[ShareMyKnowledge]

Hi, I was curious what provider would you suggest for this VOIP set up.

• Currently:
  • 1 PBX with 15 extensions.
  • 3 phone lines (3 telephone numbers) each with 2 channels.
• What is needed:
  • change to 1 tel number, with 7-10 channels (for 7-10 concurrent calls).

This office is a small office, so most calls are inbound (90% are inbound).

Any thoughts?

the ideal would be with a flat rate rather than a pay-as-you-go or per-minute.

Edit: the office is located in the US and using Asterisk 16.

 

[kenn10]

If you are in North America, check out Bulkvs or Skyetel. Both offer good 911 service and can port your phone numbers to their service. You need a good high-speed internet connection with enough bandwidth for 10 calls and your normal internet traffic at the site. Of course, you must have a SIP-capable PBX like IncrediblePBX, Asterisk or 3CX to name a few.

 

[kenn10]

Flat rate is pretty much dead. With BulkVS at $0.0003/minute for inbound and $0.0055/minute for toll-free inbound and $0.06/month for an incoming DID number, any remaining flat rate providers would cost way more than the per-minute providers. Run the numbers based on your traffic and figure it out.

There are other providers who provide a virtual PBX in the cloud with some minutes included but you're looking at a typical charge of about $20/phone per month.

Edit: For example, if you had 10 people on the phone for 8 hours a day for 30 days that would be 10X8X60X30=144,000 minutes at $0.0003 = $42.20 for the month. I'm sure that's less than one phone line you are paying for now.

I'm not a salesperson for any of these companies but the savings speak for themselves. Each company will have different per minute rates so you need to investigate.

 

[ShareMyKnowledge]

they are certainly cheap, thanks for sharing.

Do you know how many channels they allow per trunk?

 

[mannen]

BulkVS allows 20 channels per DID (incoming) IIRC.
For outbound there is no channel limit that I have seen or noticed.

Do note that they charge a mandatory CNAM lookup fee per incoming call: $0.002
But they are still very cheap and provide good call quality and quick support.