Wholesale Service
We offer wholesale A-Z termination rates to VoIP service providers. Wholesale rates are billed 6/6 USA and
Canada, 60/60 Mexico and 1/1 to most of other destinations.
Rates to US48 are NPANXXY based and start with $0.002.
Download US48 premium rates (last updated: January 21 2012),
download US48 PSTN rates (last updated: January 21 2012).
Calls to ported US numbers are billed by called number LRN
but not DN (call rate to terminate the call to the current number carrier).
If the dialed number is not in our cache, your account will be charged $0.0003 per call for LRN DB lookup.
The format of US48 rate lists is
dialprefix;destination name;rate interstate;rate intrastate;initial billing time;billing increment
Call routes to non-US phone numbers are
available in three flavors - Standard (last updated: February 03 2012),
Premium (last updated: February 03 2012), and
PSTN (last updated: December 08 2011).
The Standard plan uses the low cost routes, the Premium
plan uses preselected high quality routes, PSTN plan uses routes which connect the calls directly to SS7 network. Standard and Premium rates are updated weekly.
The fields in the rate lists are
dialprefix;destination name;rate;initial billing time;billing increment
The call rates are NOT negotiable.
You can use a dial prefix to select the plan to use for outgoing call:
- *30 - use PSTN route.
- *31 - use Standard route.
- *32 - use Premium route.
- No prefix - use Standard/Premium or PSTN route depending on your account setting.
- *4TTT - select a specific termination trunk.
Per tunk rates (last updated: February 03 2012).
The last 2 fields in per trunk rate list are trunk number and trunk rating (0 - Std, 1 - Prem, 2 - PSTN).
- Call rates to US48 are common for std and prem plans.
You can override per call "max route" and "max rate" values in your account settings with custom SIP headers in INVITE request.
- X-CWU-maxrate: N.NNNN - set max call rate to $N.NNNN, we will try to deliver the call using routes with call termination rate
to the dialed number no higher than $N.NNNN.
- X-CWU-maxroute: N - set "max route" parameter to N, we will try up to N routes to deliver the call, the "max rate" parameter set in your account
settings will be used for call routing decision also.
Examples of usage:
Asterisk:
exten => _X.,n,SIPAddHeader(X-CWU-maxroute: 2)
FREESwitch:
<action application="set" data="sip_h_X-CWU-maxrate=0.028"/>
Prequalification is required to be eligible for carrier rate plans.
- You must be a VoIP service provider, not an end user.
You are responsible for collecting any applicable taxes from your customers
and remitting them to the government in your country of business.
For example, you are responsible to pay VAT (Europe), USF (USA) or GST/PST (Canada).
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You must send a valid CID number of the caller.
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We do not accept autodialer and telemarketing traffic, ACD of your traffic must be more than 60 seconds and ASR > 50%. Non-conforming wholesale accounts will be
switched to retail plan without prior notice. See this link for more details.
- Your VoIP equipment must support SIP protocol and SIP reINVITE. Calls from a SIP equipment located behind NAT router will be
charged at retail rates.
Set the following parameters in your VoIP account settings on our web site:
- CALLERID: set to blank
- HOST: Your SIP server IP address
- PORT: Your port (5060 for default port)
Send calls to carrier.callwithus.com, port 5060.
- Your VoIP equipment must support g711 and g729 codecs.
- You must have backup termination routes to provide uninterruptible service to your customers.
- Your monthly call volume with us must be at least 10000 minutes or monthly spending $100 (excluding calls to US
toll free numbers).
Minimal payment amount to wholesale account is $10, payment processing fee of 3.2%+$0.3 will be deducted from the payment amount.
If you are eligible for carrier plans and want to use our call termination service for your
business, open an account with us, configure it and your equipment as described above,
make a small payment and make some test calls. If you have interconnection problems, or if you would like to switch your
account to a wholesale plan, contact us with your account number. If
everything works, please tell us whether you would like the Standard or
Premium plan by default.
Toll free service: if you need to terminate calls to US toll free numbers, send SIP calls to tf.callwithus.com,
accepted area codes are 1800, 1888, 1877 and 1866. You don't
need to have an account with us to terminate calls to TF numbers. Please note: you have to provide a valid US caller id number.
Calls are accepted in 10 and 11 digits format.
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