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MiVoice Office 250/Mitel 5000 / Re: Moving from PSTN trunk to SIP trunk

« on: May 24, 2016, 09:54:39 PM »

An excellent point. I've already done the math and it will save us an enormous amount of money. I am looking at VoIP.ms

We are a small private school with four phone lines (maybe five) coming into our PBX. Earthlink charges $35 per unlimited local business line and $20 per basic business line. 1 of our lines if unlimited and the other four are basic ($115/month just in maintaining the lines). Add onto that the cost of 100 minutes of calling and you are looking at a bill of about $140/month.

The same service through VoIP.ms would cost around $15/month.

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MiVoice Office 250/Mitel 5000 / Moving from PSTN trunk to SIP trunk

« on: May 19, 2016, 11:43:22 AM »

Greetings,

My business has a Inter-Tel 5200. All of our endpoints are digital. We are looking at moving from Earthlink (our pstn upstream tone provider) to a VoIP solution...this is a cost-cutting move. I'm not a hardened Inter-Tel administrator (frankly the product scares me). I can do Asterisk/FreePBX but this Inter-Tel box is not friendly at all...I actively avoid looking at it or touching it.

My thought was to get a multiple port ATA like the Obihai obi504vs (4 FXS ports), port the numbers over to a VoIP provider and then plug the Obihai into the 5200...I can't see any reason why this wouldn't work and would allow me to incrementally move over to VoIP (a few lines at a time).

My second thought was getting the Inter-Tel to speak SIP trunk natively. What hardware/license are required for this?