Canadian Numbers

[Brycew]

Any chance there will be support for Canadian lines soon? I would love to buy a few for my company.

[VOIPoTim]

Not yet, but it's something we want to do in the future if we can get the wholesale pricing to a level that makes sense for us.

Basically all phone numbers are issued by companies that have physical connections into the phone network in the area the phone number comes from. VoIP providers like us partner with companies and lease numbers from them in bulk and they send the calls to our network through the internet. So for Canadian numbers, we have to work with Canadian providers like Bell, Rogers, Allstream, MTS, etc that have a physical network there.

Unfortunately the wholesale rates in Canada are much much higher than that they are in the US. There is definitely a lot of demand for Canada and we get a lot of requests for it, but right now the wholesale rates are just too high for it to make sense for us. This is one of the main reasons there's not as much competition there in terms of VoIP.

So it's something that we want to do and we know you guys want and we hope to be able to put together a deal with a Canadian partner carrier in the future to be able to do it.