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0 pointsaeontech4y ago0 comments

This sounds fascinating and also completely over my head in terms of possibilities… is there a basic “getting started guide” you would recommend for someone who may not have the bandwidth to go all-in learning telephony from soup to bolts but would still like the benefits? :)

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walrus014y ago

Wouldn't recommend it unless you do network/telecom stuff for a living, it has a bit of an ongoing time cost in maintenance...

some of the SIP trunking providers that have more focus on the consumer market such as voip.ms do let you define your own custom IVR and menus, to accomplish pretty much what I described, without having your own SIP-speaking system registered to it persistently. You should be able to define a voip.ms IVR destination as your cellphone.

jasonjayr4y ago

Thinking about this a smidge, you probably can just use voip.ms to (a) order a DID (aka a phone number), (b) setup an IVR for the message, and (c) instruct them to dial an [internal to your account] extension that forwards to your real number, all on the voip.ms platform.

You wouldn't have to set anything up, just pay them for per-minute charge. You will have to pay 2x per minute, once for the inbound, and then outbound to your real number, ..... unless you go through the extra steps of setting up SIP phones.

FWIW; I've used voip.ms for a long time, and just a very happy customer. The biggest trouble they've had was availability issues a month or so ago when they were the victim of a DDoS :-/. You probably could pull off this trick with any of the pay as you go SIP trunking providers ...

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