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David Lambrecht

Brass Contributor

Jan 26, 2018

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PSTN Calling Belgium

Hi

This week we had a meeting with our phone company.

Since we still have an on premise pbx we want to get rid of this.

We have 5 sites Belgium /France /Uk /US.

We want all this sites on cloud pbx with SFB or Teams.

Now the phone company tells us we cannot get numbers From Microsoft.

Ofcource if we would take E5 we wouldn need them anymore.

So what i would like to know.

- can we get pstn numbers in Belgium and phone in and out ?

- Do we still need an on prem lync or sfb server or some gateway ?

when i look at this page it should be possible .

https://docs.microsoft.com/nl-nl/SkypeForBusiness/country-and-region-availability-for-audio-conferencing-and-calling-plans/availability-in-belgium

Regards,

David

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Erwin Bierens
Jan 26, 2018
Hi David,

Belgium is also active on Microsoft Phone System (old name: Cloud PBX)
Country's who have porting features now:
- US
- UK
- Belgium
- France
- Netherlands
- Ireland
- Porto Rico
- Spain

You don't need to have E5 for PSTN Calling. If you have for example E3 (can also be done with E1), you need to buy the Phone System license and a calling plan (domestic or domestic+international). A calling plan you also need to buy when you have E5, in the E5 license the Phone system license is included.

If you need a on-premises environment is totally depending on your Phone feature needs.

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Erwin Bierens
MVP
Jan 26, 2018
Hi David,

Belgium is also active on Microsoft Phone System (old name: Cloud PBX)
Country's who have porting features now:
- US
- UK
- Belgium
- France
- Netherlands
- Ireland
- Porto Rico
- Spain

You don't need to have E5 for PSTN Calling. If you have for example E3 (can also be done with E1), you need to buy the Phone System license and a calling plan (domestic or domestic+international). A calling plan you also need to buy when you have E5, in the E5 license the Phone system license is included.

If you need a on-premises environment is totally depending on your Phone feature needs.
- David Lambrecht
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 26, 2018
  Hi
  
  Thanks for the quick reply.
  
  So i i understand correct we can transfer our numbers to Microsoft ?
  
  Can i get some more info on the last sentence you wrote ?
  
  Like what can we do without onprem server and what is extra when we put a server on site ?
  
  Regards,
  
  David
  - Erwin Bierens
    MVP
    Jan 26, 2018
    Yes, you can port your numbers to Microsoft.
    
    I've a small comparison table, which is listing features. The right column is Skype for Business On-premises.

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