<div dir="ltr">It would be great if that LCR actually saved you any money, but it's just a gimmick.  During the Bandwidth fiasco we sent all our term to them, and the cost feels like it's doubled or more.  I didn't do a real numbers check, just a glance tells me it's at least double the Bandwidth rate.<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 3:16 PM Ryan Delgrosso <<a href="mailto:ryandelgrosso@gmail.com">ryandelgrosso@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>The portion of their offering I always liked the most was their
      LCR as a service. Their orig product is mostly uninspired. <br>
    </p>
    <p>Theyve had their own outages which were platform related,
      everyone has them. I usually would think players in this space
      would have a little more class than to try kicking someone when
      down. Every provider has bad days. <br>
    </p>
    <div>On 9/27/2021 2:47 PM, Carlos Alvarez
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">They have felt to me to be a bit aggressive and not
        fully genuine on their sales efforts lately.  We have used them
        for about 20% of our traffic for years, and seem pretty
        reliable.
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        </div>
        <div>It would be interesting if they could do DID
          re-routing quickly, but as far as I've heard, that's TF only.</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 2:38
          PM Darren via VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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              <p class="MsoNormal">Yeah that’s kindof piggybacking
                disingenuously to consumers who don’t know any better,
                yikes.</p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org</a>>
                    on behalf of Ryan Delgrosso <<a href="mailto:ryandelgrosso@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryandelgrosso@gmail.com</a>><br>
                    <b>Date: </b>Monday, September 27, 2021 at 2:32 PM<br>
                    <b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>"
                    <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>><br>
                    <b>Subject: </b>Re: [VoiceOps] thinQ is making hay
                    while Bandwidth is down</span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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              <p>I believe they are referring to TF and Termination</p>
              <p>DID's are going to be orphaned.</p>
              <p> </p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">On 9/27/2021 2:17 PM, Carlos
                  Alvarez wrote:</p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal">This seems to be a bit
                    disingenuous.  I don't believe that they can
                    multi-home or move DIDs quickly?  Or am I wrong? 
                    Could they actually solve the current problem?  DIDs
                    are the only issue; we simply moved outbound.
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(77,103,116)">Hi
                                                          Carlos,</span></b></p>
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                <pre>VoiceOps mailing list</pre>
                <pre><a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org" target="_blank">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a></pre>
                <pre><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a></pre>
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          _______________________________________________<br>
          VoiceOps mailing list<br>
          <a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org" target="_blank">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br>
          <a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a><br>
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VoiceOps mailing list
<a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org" target="_blank">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a>
<a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a>
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<a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org" target="_blank">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br>
<a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a><br>
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