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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 site...

PSTN Calling

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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.

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

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.
- Marcel Korbee
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 26, 2018
  Hi David,
  
  Some issues I ran into. migrating a customer in NL and FR)
  
  - Every Users needs a number (besides Phone System and Domestic Calling Plan subscription) to make phone calls.
  
  - CallingLineIdentity (suppress the outgoing number) policy is not working on al Carriers (tested in FR and NL)
  
  -Permium numbers (numbers you have to pay for extra) are not reachable (stil in the progress of getting this active)
  
  Besides this issues it works fine.
  - Erwin Bierens
    MVP
    Jan 26, 2018
    - If you want a Agent on a Call Queue that does not need to call outside you don't need a calling plan. Only Enterprise Voice needs to be activated to the user.
    - Did not test this, will try this out.
    - For Premium number you will have to setup consumption billing.
- David Lambrecht
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 26, 2018
  Hi Erwin
  
  Thanks
  
  Is there somewhere a full feature comparisation with sfb online and Hybrid ?
  
  Regards,
  
  David
  - Erwin Bierens
    MVP
    Jan 26, 2018
    Not that i know of, that's why i created the attached one on my last response.