<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Can't really blame them too much since they offer free US calls, no GOOD reason why calls to those npa-nxx's cost 6-12x more then a call to India.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Sorensen, Marty wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode">
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Google Voice will not complete calls at
all to those exchanges and would up in front of the FCC for their trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
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</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> <a href="mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org">voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org</a>
[mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On
Behalf Of </span></b>David Hiers<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, December 08, 2009
6:37 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Ujjval Karihaloo<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> <a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">voiceops@voiceops.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [VoiceOps]
Conferencing NPAs</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

</div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Some providers are pretty
shady; they're simply limiting the number of calls to the troublesome NPAs
instead of trying to charge their customers for the calls.<br>
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Interestingly enough, of all the carrier rate sheets I've seen, I can't recall
one of them that had pricing that reflected the arbitrage NPAs.<br>
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David<br>
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12.0pt">On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ujjval Karihaloo &lt;<a href="mailto:ujjval@simplesignal.com">ujjval@simplesignal.com</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Guys:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">&nbsp;I know few
months back there was a buzz about the Gotomeeting and other free conferencing
numbers being dinged-up for very high per min rates. Has anyone had issues with
Providers like Level3 charging high rates for these conferencing numbers?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:#1F497D">Ujjval Karihaloo</span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:#1F497D">VP Voice Engineering</span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:#1F497D">IP Phone: +13032428610</span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
color:#1F497D">E-Fax: +17202391690</span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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