I know some time ago (perhaps ~3-4 years ago) Level 3 was looking into this and gave up or tabled the project indefinitely, looking more towards Europe. Not sure what has changed in the carrier space. I am sure you can find a bargain basement provider that can get you DID's, but I doubt they'll have any form of 911 service or pay much attention to regulatory. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Jay Hennigan Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:42 PM To: VoiceOps Subject: [VoiceOps] Canadian DIDs for SIP VoIP provider? We're a VoIP provider in California with carrier arrangements for DIDs throughout much of the US. We have a few customers with offices in Canada and are beginning to get inquiries from others with cross-border US/Canadian presence. Has anyone gone down this path that can give some pointers? Obviously we can put IADs with FXO (or even PRI) ports on-premise at each customer location tied to the local telco but this doesn't scale all that well. I'm looking for legal/regulatory info about such things as taxes, 9-1-1, getting listed in the local white pages, etc. as well as any technical obstacles and recommended providers. Technically it appears to be pretty straightforward. It's all part of the same NANP. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

Hi, we're a Canadian VOIP company and we offer DIDs / Local presence / portability in many Canadian cities through various providers so you might be interested. Have a look at our website at http://www.ubity.com Antoine Reversat On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:

We're a VoIP provider in California with carrier arrangements for DIDs throughout much of the US.

We have a few customers with offices in Canada and are beginning to get inquiries from others with cross-border US/Canadian presence.

Has anyone gone down this path that can give some pointers? ?Obviously we can put IADs with FXO (or even PRI) ports on-premise at each customer location tied to the local telco but this doesn't scale all that well.

I'm looking for legal/regulatory info about such things as taxes, 9-1-1, getting listed in the local white pages, etc. as well as any technical obstacles and recommended providers. ?Technically it appears to be pretty straightforward. ?It's all part of the same NANP.

-- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net Impulse Internet Service ?- ?http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops