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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Level 3 does not handle 90% of the US SIP termination market. Be careful when doing your initial interconnect agreement with them.</span>
</div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Quality is superb, but last I checked, minimum was $10k/month spend (that could be for their "wholesale" division only though).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">We terminated about 35 million minutes to them last month with only about 5 trouble tickets (which well below average for us).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">To second what Kristian said, the only problems ended up being some underlying vendor not wanting to terminate the call, but</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">still answering the call.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Make sure you are happy with your account manager. In the past, that really made our relationship great or terrible.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">AT&T is also very good. Now they are opening more and more of their own network for wholesale LD over SIP, which they didn't</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">do much in the past (especially for interconnects). There is a distinct difference if you are reselling their network or using it to terminate</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">your direct customer traffic. It also really depends if your traffic is TDM originated or IP originated (non enhanced/enhanced)</span></div>
<div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Brandon Kruse<br></div><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>I can confirm that Level(3) is essentially the "Cadillac" of SIP orig/term in the US.<br><br></div>- Almost absolutely consistent signalling.<br></div>- At least six ingress/egress SBCs throughout the US with fairly flexible routing.<br>
</div>- Level(3) (from an IP perspective) tops the charts in IPs allocated and BGP peers. If you're doing direct media handoff there's no better option.<br></div><div>- While very bureaucratic, they have excellent operations.<br>
</div><div><br></div>We've never had a quality problem with them that was actually their fault.<br></div><div><br><br><div>On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Jamuel Starkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jamuel@hcvoip.com" target="_blank">jamuel@hcvoip.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Nick,<br>
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Last I heard XO exited the SIP TERM market--purportedly too competitive for them.<br>
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Level-3 works well and handles 90% of the US resale SIP TERM market from what I hear--we use them for as a primary carrier for US ORIG, TF ORIG, as well as TERM (US Domestic and International). We aren't as cost focused as some but more quality focused--and we've never had voice quality issues with them. They expect 1 million minutes per month with a $10,000 USD monthly commit. There's been so much turnover at Level-3 I'm not sure who the best person to contact is but I'll send you our contact details separately.<br>
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Never had an dealing with AT&T so no info to provide but we've also run into folks that use Verizon--no details there either both have a hefty take or pay . . .<br>
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Feel free to contact me directly if you have any additional questions or would like to discuss a partnership should you not be able to meet any of the commitments required by Level-3 as we are always looking to add minutes and reduce our costs :)<br>
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Hope that gets you started at the very least . . .<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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JPS<br>
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On May 15, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Nick Khamis wrote:<br>
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> Hello Everyone,<br>
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> Anyone here using Level 3 or AT&T wholesale sip terminations services?<br>
> I would like to know on any minimums they would require. Also, an idea<br>
> of how competitive the rates are. I am not asking to disclose your<br>
> custom rate deck, just a "what to expect". Finally, if you guys can PM<br>
> me contact info to someone from the wholesale department who knows<br>
> what they are talking about when it comes to SIP trunking, I would<br>
> really appreciate it.<br>
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> Kind Regards,<br>
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> Nick.<br>
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