[Freeswitch-users] UK SIP Trunk providers

[Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]]

Let's be clear on definitions here;

BT, Kingston - Top of the food chain, only financially viable for those
with lots of cash and traffic
Magrathea, Simwood, Gamma  - Designed for wholesale, scalable to many
millions of minutes per month.
SipGate, SureVoip, Gradwell, GBC - These providers are designed for
consumers, only necessary if you are not running your own equipment
NumberGroup, Sol4 - they are essentially a reseller aggregate, or to be
more blunt, an unnecessary middleman

If someone is running their own switch, why would you want to go with a
consumer grade service which not only limits your CLI capabilities, but
also increases complexity, affects latency and inflates call rates.
Likewise, why would you go through a middleman when you could just go
direct to the supplier with no minimum spend on outbound traffic? Though
typically inbound does require a small min spend of around £50/month (which
is tiny in comparison with VoxBone who charge a min spend of around
£600/month [needs clarification]), which is really the only valid reason
(that I can think of right now) to go with any of these reseller aggregates.

Cal


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Andrew Cassidy <
andrew at cassidywebservices.co.uk> wrote:

> Magrathea are pretty much the industry standard for volume.
>
> Depending on your requirements, there are many others such as SipGate and
> Gradwell. There are also people from at least 3 UK trunk providers in this
> list, including SureVoip, NumberGroup and PowerTel.
>
>
> On 29 October 2013 00:29, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
> cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> This topic was discussed a few months back, you can read the thread here;
>>
>>
>> http://markmail.org/message/xdjhmpkzd7txndji#query:+page:1+mid:ncuirf776l5hjovc+state:results
>>
>> http://freeswitch-users.2379917.n2.nabble.com/DID-providers-any-thoughts-jan-2013-tt7586851.html#none
>>
>> Since my last post, our chosen UK providers are Magrathea and Simwood.
>>
>> This inter-op was over a period of 6 months but based on low traffic
>> (<=500 calls a month), so others with higher throughput may wish to
>> chime in.
>>
>> Magrathea - Over a period of one month, I've not had a single
>> problematic call, routing/quality is always good, and they seem to
>> have almost every dialing code possible for DIDs. I have not dealt
>> with their technical staff yet, but their sales people were friendly
>> and knowledgeable.
>>
>> Simwood - Over a period of two months, I had 2 call routing issues to
>> international destinations and they are missing at least one number
>> range (Bournemouth). However it's worth noting that Simwood were very
>> quick to help, they identified the routing problem within 5 minutes of
>> me reporting it, and despite being a low profit customer they treated
>> us as a high priority. I've also spoken to numerous staff there, they
>> always come across as friendly and, more importantly, competent. I
>> would have no problem recommending Simwood to others.
>>
>> For international routing - I'm still in the process of reviewing
>> TelServ and Flowroute, I'd like to use Voxbone but their min spend is
>> too high for us.
>>
>> I cannot choose between Sim/Mag, they are both extremely good
>> companies - use both (redundancy is a good thing anyway!)
>>
>> Cal
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Richard Mace <richard.mace at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > Can anyone recommend any SIP trunk providers, ideally based in the UK?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Richard
>> >
>> >
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