Talkfly, which is a well-known provider of VoIP services, is now offering carrier and wholesale services. Among some of the things they offer are:

• SIP origination and termination
• DID phone numbers
• Local Number Portability
• Origination DID coverage in over 95% of US ratecenters
• Free testing credit
• Configuration assistance
• Hosted PBX

We tried Talkfly out using a BYOD PAP2NA which the technical staff at Talkfly helped us configure. We were provided some testing credit, a features and voicemail explanation sheet, and a login to a customer interface. The interface is somewhat lacking in features, but from what we understand, there are many new self-service features coming soon.

The call quality was consistent and good, we had no issues with DTMF, and have not experienced any downtime in the 6 months we have used the service. They explained that they have several wholly-owned points of presence that all have redundant fiber optic connectivity and high-availability switching clusters for maximum uptime.

We really think that these guys have the potential to do big things, they are now in the process of offering TDM over IP in certain markets soon. Basically they purchase or lease a facility in the LATA of the area they want to deploy TDM in and then have digital lines to the switch at that facility. While you may connect to them via an IP connection, the calls being originated and terminated will be over copper or fiber. An interesting way of switching it up in our opinion.

A signup link can be found at http://www.talkfly.net and once you signup, you will more than likely get an email or call from their staff welcoming you to teh service and seeing if they can assist you in getting started which was a nice thing for us.

We will continue to follow them and report back soon!