Category: VoIP Service Providers
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Is Craigslist blocking VoIP, Prepaid phone numbers in anti-spam effort?
Continue Reading: Is Craigslist blocking VoIP, Prepaid phone numbers in anti-spam effort?Is Craigslist really blocking phone numbers from VoIP service providers or pre-paid cell phones as an anti-spam measure?Last night over on the VoIPinsider blog, Cory Andrews wrote that Craigslist is apparently blocking VoIP or prepaid cellular numbers as part of their anti-spam measures. Now I’m a huge fan of Craigslist and we’ve sold lots of items (including, now, our house) via Craigslist. But we’ve also seen the spam out there and personally been contacted in response to one of our ads by a sleazy individual who was trying to scam us out of money. Techdirt, in fact, says that the battle has been lost and that the spammers are taking over Craigslist. While it wasn’t that dreadful in the Vermont Craigslist area, there certainly was some spam and you can understand the folks there wanting to do all they can to block spammers.
But to block VoIP service providers? Just as increasingly large numbers of users move over to VoIP services?
THE APPARENT ACTIONS
It seems a rather draconian – and misguided – measure. As the VoIP Insider article states:
A few months back, Craiglist instituted a telephone verification process that places an automated outbound call to a user placing…
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VoIPUser.org Explains How to Build a VoIP Server Provider Network
Continue Reading: VoIPUser.org Explains How to Build a VoIP Server Provider NetworkDean Elwood over at VoIPUser.org put up a post yesterday entitled "How to Build a VoIP Network" in which he goes into precisely what is needed to set yourself up as a VoIP Service Provider (or "Internet Telephony Service Provider" (ISTP)). Given that Dean’s been involved with this through VoIPuser.org, he’s definitely got some credibility. As he says, he wrote the piece because:
We see a lot of threads on VoIP User from people who want to be the next Niklas Zennstrom (and fair enough, we hope you succeed) asking what is required to build a VoIP network.
Often these questions are from users who have a basic technical understanding of how it all works, but no real experience of building networks, or telcoms experience with the good old PSTN.He goes on to offer these seven rules:
1. if you’re a marketing genius, you have a greater chance of success with your new VoIP company than if you are a technical genius.
2. Using the internet to route calls does not mean that everything in the VoIP world runs on Intel *nix.
3. It is going to break at some point. Ensure you have redundancy.
4. The transition…