[Cialug] OT: buying a phone number

Fri Jan 13 12:08:08 CST 2012

Wow..

I currently have a fairly old 515 number from Twilio and have been wondering why I couldn't get another.. According to localcallingguide.com, the block I'm in (515-442-0) is assigned to bandwidth.com. Is that who their upstream provider is these days (at least for new numbers/ports)?

I checked with Flowroute also (we use them for LD), and it seems the they only have 712-522 DIDs in Iowa (nothing in the other area codes). Vitelity has both Des Moines and Marshalltown numbers available (they also don't seem to consider M-Town rural :-)).

-Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Nuzum" <newz at bearfruit.org>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 11:50:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] OT: buying a phone number

As it turns out, Twilio's upstream providers do not handle 515 area codes so I can't even port one over to their platform. Sounds political. I can't fathom why such a thing would happen. 

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Matthew Nuzum < newz at bearfruit.org > wrote: 

Sounds interesting, Let me see if I can find someone who wants to pay for some work along these lines. Thanks for the tips! 

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Dave Weis < djweis at internetsolver.com > wrote: 

Yes, you could order a landline and give that number to twilio to port out. By the time you’re done it will cost about $100 in install and first month costs. If you aren’t picky about the number I’ll let you port one of ours out for pizza and beer at the next LUG meeting. 

From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto: cialug-bounces at cialug.org ] On Behalf Of Matthew Nuzum 
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:57 PM 
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group 
Subject: [Cialug] OT: buying a phone number 

I'm playing with Twilio, which is a pretty sweet service. Unfortunately they have no 515 area code phone numbers, but they say you can buy one from another carrier and then port it over to them [1]. Does anyone know how you buy a phone number? Can I just call Qwest and order one? I find it interesting how they say they have one for nearly every area except Alaska and Hawaii, but none in 515. Maybe the caucuses used them all up. 

[1] https://www.twilio.com/faq#phone-numbers-1 

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