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VoIP is a restricted business?
by orenyny＠gmail.com Jan. 5, 2022

Jan. 5, 2022

Hello, Happy New Year everyone. I recently became aware of the fact that banks (and financial institutions) define any business that merely mentions the word VoIP as restricted. Meaning they would not allow such a business to work with them. As if VoIP is some kind of an illegal substance. I am confident that when it comes to larger players they are not defined as a VoIP business... One company (Wise/Wisetransfer) even claimed that their regulation requires them to do that. I wonder if you have any more information and how do you deal with this. Thanks, Oren

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acrobits app - sounds pop and crackle
by igoldstein＠telego.net Dec. 27, 2021

Dec. 27, 2021

i've noticed "scratchy" sounding phone calls when using the app, but when i make calls with the native iphone app, it works fine when i use the acrobits app, it sounds like something is in the speaker - best described as pop and crackling anyone else using acrobits and found a solution for this issue ?

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Vendor Pros\Cons
by voiceops＠ics-il.net Dec. 26, 2021

Dec. 26, 2021

We've been running Metaswitch for 15 years and are looking to refresh what we have. Who else operates at that tier? I'm talking to Ribbon. I'm hesitant to talk to to Broadsoft because they're part of Cisco, but if I should, I should... Obviously, there are rather limited venues to gain third-party feedback on the platforms, so I figured I'd ask here. Thanks. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

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Stir Shaken Test Numbers
by sean＠commandlink.com Dec. 25, 2021

Dec. 25, 2021

As we continue to implement stir/shaken through various platforms and carriers, It would be lovely to have a number we could dial that would read-back the SS attestation details. Does anyone know if this exists? Something like http://thetestcall.blogspot.com/ Sean

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RPID vs. PAI
by David.Zilk＠cdk.com Dec. 21, 2021

Dec. 21, 2021

I am working with a provider that wants to see PAI and not RPID, however we receive calls from a different provider that sends us RPID. Can I simply copy the RPID header into PAI so that all the necessary screen= and privacy= parameters are preserved when forwarding the call from the second provider to the first? Is there a better way of going about this? Thanks for your help. David

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Euro ITSP looking for US TF traffic compensation
by universe＠truemetal.org Dec. 3, 2021

Dec. 3, 2021

Hello list! I'm a ITSP in Germany and we have around 70,000 minutes per month to US toll-free numbers. I'd like to receive a share of the toll-free termination fee and no longer terminate this traffic "for free" via our current partner. Meaning, I would like to get paid for every minute that we terminate through you via SIP. Please contact me off-list if you can offer this or know someone who can. (I hope there still is a TF termination fee in the US or has that gone away too like calls to geo/mobile numbers?) Thanks! Markus

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VoIP SMS Campaign Fees
by abalashov＠evaristesys.com Nov. 29, 2021

Nov. 29, 2021

I use Twilio extensively for network and system monitoring-related texts to? myself. Don?t care about fees, charge me whatever, just please don?t make it stop working or make me do more paperwork. This stuff sounds like a possible source of disruption or additional paperwork and for the mere possibility alone, I burn with the blinding white-hot hatred of a thousand angry suns and the vengefulness of a spiteful Old Testament god. ? Sent from mobile, with due apologies for brevity and errors. > On Nov 29, 2021, at 5:03 PM, Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote: >

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Robocall/reputation lookup and call blocking
by jstalder＠panterranetworks.com Nov. 23, 2021

Nov. 23, 2021

For inbound spam/robocall blocking, we use a reputation score threshold from the common vendors to determine whether a given call should be marked as just ?spammy? or rather blocked entirely. As of late, we?re receiving more and more complaints of inbound calls being blocked due to VERY bad reputations (i.e. 100 out of 100). In most/all cases, the callers are large organizations? hospitals, pharmacies, insurance companies, etc. It appears many of the large companies haven?t bothered to SHAKEN sign their calls nor manage their reputations via https://calleridreputation.com, https://calltransparency.com, etc. Many use a single TN for all their outbound calls. ;-( Our strong suspicion is that because large carriers have whitelisted the calling TNs and the importance of valid calls, spoofers are hot to use them and the reputation databases reflect that. Problem for us, of course, is that our customers want to receive calls from the real organizations but we have no way of determining which calls are real and which are not. Only the TN reputation score from industry databases and call headers are available. Just curious what others are doing and seeing ?in the wild?. Is playing the whack-a-mole whitelisting game really the best solution? An alternative idea of letting all bad reputation calls through and simply marking them as ?spammy?, regardless of score, seems like a cop-out. -Joel *Joel Stalder* *Director, North American Network Operations* *+1.408.400.3830* [image: Panterra_newest_logo150] *"The Unified Cloud Service Provider"*

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some of my customers DID show as Possible Spam
by igoldstein＠telego.net Nov. 19, 2021

Nov. 19, 2021

We get Support Tickets from our clients that when they call their Customers, their customers see the call from Possible or Potential Spam etc I reached out to our vendor we use for Termination, who is an aggregator and they say the issue is with the person getting the call, Why is this happening to my customers DIDs? We get this complaint from several of our clients Could it be that our vendor is using a bad carrier to terminate the calls? could it be some spammer used my customers DID as their ANI so it got flagged as spam ? has anyone dealt with this or a similar issue ? -- Izzy G

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Interesting proactive email from Telnyx
by caalvarez＠gmail.com Nov. 15, 2021

Nov. 15, 2021

We're just barely trying them out, mostly for SMS. Prices seem pretty high compared to our other providers so it's really just a convenience/test at this point. But this was interesting: Dear customer, Telnyx has reason to believe that sip.telnyx.com will be targeted in a subsequent DDoS attack tomorrow (Monday the 15th of Nov). During attacks, it is likely we will block traffic from non-trusted sources. To help achieve this Telnyx has proactively created a list of trusted IPs using customer authentication IPs, successful registrations, and historical traffic. However, we strongly encourage all customers to check their records and add any IP that they may be using, to their Access Control IP List as per the following instructions: https://telnyx.com/release-notes/allowed-ip-mission-control <http://email.mg.telnyx.com/c/eJydUU1zmzAQ_TVwYfBgBAgOHIypa3twJk7sOu2FkcXiqB…> Thank you for your understanding, The Telnyx Team Thing is though, they don't seem to let you whitelist a subnet or range. Entering a couple dozen IPs is not great.

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