[Freeswitch-users] UK SIP Trunk providers

[Andrew Cassidy]

I think the point to be made here is that your choice should be determined
by your requirements and budget. As we know neither of those, we can't give
you specific recommendations.

The majority of people I encounter use 'consumer' grade services, with or
without their own equipment as necessary. That said these are largely small
businesses.

In all seriousness there's always a best tool for the job and no one
service that'll meet all needs.


On 29 October 2013 08:42, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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