CircleNet would like to introduce ourselves to the Obi world
azrobert:
zorlac,
When you're ready to reconfigure your OBi, I can walk you through the steps. You don't have to change the whole configuration like I did in the guide, but you should take it one step at a time. 1st you should make a list of the new requirements, then you can post what you think needs to be changed. I can tell you if you're correct or not and why.
ToddAllen:
While working on the reconfiguration of my OBI from GV to CircleNet I made the mistake of calling a toll free number as a test without first going online to check the rate simulator. I kind of assumed that toll free numbers would be free or at least no more expensive then the test call to my GV # which was a fraction of a cent per minute.
But the toll free number I called 1800weather and the couple other toll free #s I checked afterwards in the rate simulator all bill out at $0.535/minute! I'm not too upset as I only called for 1.5 minutes and didn't even use up my free $2 credit yet, but wanted to warn everyone that calling toll free numbers from circlenet could be very expensive!
It does make me much less excited about circlenet though as now I'll need to be paranoid and check each number before I call it since the rates can vary so wildly. Toll free numbers appear to be about 100X as expensive to call as normal numbers. Imagine another number 100X as expensive as a toll free one and it gets ugly super fast.
Shale:
Quote from: ToddAllen on May 06, 2014, 09:22:59 pm
But the toll free number I called 1800weather and the couple other toll free #s I checked afterwards in the rate simulator all bill out at $0.535/minute!
That is really crazy. I wondered if you had entered it wrong, but I duplicated your finding. https://customer.circlenet.us/customer/rates.php?called=18009328437
Thanks for the heads up. I had tried 800 numbers on the back of two credit cards and got $0.000 both.
giqcass:
If that is the case I recommend setting 800 calls to go through another provider.
Like in this thread
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=5764.0#3255738912883429860
or
https://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=2357.0
or
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=1466.0
Perhaps Sam can chime in on this. It seems odd.
swg0101:
Same issue - 800 numbers used to free. But I noticed that this problem seems to crop up whenever they are changing their routing (or they don't have a route available so they charge you the highest available rate).
You can see by punching a 900 number in there that it gives you the same result...
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