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SIP / Voice / VoIP Rate Deck Analysis

Need an NPANXX, NPANXXY, OCN LATA rate deck or all three normalized or analyzed? I’ve got extensive experience with managing multiple voice rate decks, whether they are OCN/LATA, 6-digit, or 7-digit decks. I can perform the following services: Summarizing prefixes … Continue reading

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Mike Tindall Michael Tindall

This post serves no purpose other than to get my site to the top of the search engines for my name. There are too many other Michael Tindall sites and Mike Tindall sites. I am not the famous rugby player … Continue reading

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SIP Termination – SIPRoutes.com

The most revolutionary product I’ve seen to-date in the SIP Termination space is SIPRoutes.com. They provide the most powerful and customizable cloud based SIP LCR in the market today. With a full suite of online tools, you can control which … Continue reading

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Amazon EC2 security group not working

I recently needed up update my Amazon EC2 Security Group to allow HTTP and HTTPS. This is a trivial task considering the fantastic tools they give you to easily do this. However to my dismay, every time I tried to … Continue reading

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SIP RFC Proposal for LCR Carriers to populate routes attempted

Everybody uses everybody in the arena of SIP Least Cost Routing (LCR). This spiderweb of interconnected carriers does fantastic things for the cost of communications by driving down the cost of goods for telephone minutes. <Editorial Start> I’ve always said … Continue reading

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php fgetcsv fails to detect line endings in macintosh csv files

I was recently working on a php script to import csv file data into a MySQL table. I was getting odd results in my table, and it appeared to me that the script was not respecting the line endings in … Continue reading

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Pretty Permalink Not Working 404 Not Found

I recently installed my new Blog on an Ubuntu server and when enabling pretty permalinks I was getting a 404 not found error. After some searching and testing with different .htaccess rules I decided to check if Apache was loading … Continue reading

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