Category:Service Providers - Revision history

CaptainChris at 07:34, 5 February 2026

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	A service provider is a business that sells telephone service. They are many ways they can deliver the service to the customer, such as POTS, VoIP, Cellular, PRI, or Satellite. Most providers speicalize in one of these. The biggest providers are "Tier-1" meaning they own and maintain telecom equipment (e.g. AT&T, Verizon, Bandwidth), while most carriers are "Tier-2" or "Tier-3", meaning they resell service from the higher tier providers, usually including their own set of features. [[Service Providers\|Learn more.]]		A service provider is a business that sells telephone service. They are many ways they can deliver the service to the customer, such as POTS, VoIP, Cellular, PRI, or Satellite. Most providers speicalize in one of these. The biggest providers are "Tier-1" meaning they own and maintain telecom equipment (e.g. AT&T, Verizon, Bandwidth), while most carriers are "Tier-2" or "Tier-3", meaning they resell service from the higher tier providers, usually including their own set of features, these include bulk resale providers (e.g. BulkVS), hosted telephony services both commercially (e.g. VoIP.ms, Ooma Ringcentral, Webex) and for telephone collectors or hobby usage, and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (e.g. Tracfone Wireless & it's subsidiaries, Boost, Metro). [[Service Providers\|Learn more.]]

	=== '''Article criteria for WikiPhone''' ===		=== '''Article criteria for WikiPhone''' ===
	Service providers '''''include''''' companies who ~~sell (or otherwise make~~ a ~~profit from) telephone~~ service to ~~the~~ general public (residential, small business, enterprise customers) including (but not limited to) Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Tracfone, US Mobile, Ringcentral, Vonage, OnSIP, VoIP.ms, BulkVS, Microsoft Teams, TextNow, Google Voice, Bandwith, Comcast, Frontier, Twilio, Callcentric, Ooma, MagicJack, Anveo, British Telecom, Vodafone, Softbank, China Telecom, and Bell Canada.		Service providers '''''include''''' companies who provide telephone service as a service either to general public (residential, small business, enterprise customers) including (but not limited to) Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Tracfone, US Mobile, Ringcentral, Vonage, OnSIP, VoIP.ms, BulkVS, Microsoft Teams, TextNow, Google Voice, Bandwith, Comcast, Frontier, Twilio, Callcentric, Ooma, MagicJack, Anveo, British Telecom, Vodafone, Softbank, China Telecom, and Bell Canada. Or as a hobby (e.g. switching networks, community PBXes, hosted line services).

	Service providers '''''do not include''''' internal phone systems (e.g. a pbx in business, a government phone system), phone system manufacturers (e.g. Cisco, Nortel/Lucent/Avaya, Digium/Sangoma~~), and phone networks for telephone enthusiasts and collectors (e.g. switching networks, community PBXes, hosted line services~~).		Service providers '''''do not include''''' internal phone systems (e.g. a pbx in business, a government phone system), or phone system manufacturers (e.g. Cisco, Nortel/Lucent/Avaya, Digium/Sangoma).

CaptainChris at 20:32, 12 October 2025

2025-10-12T20:32:25Z

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	Service providers '''''include''''' companies who sell (or otherwise make a profit from) telephone service to the general public (residential, small business, enterprise customers) including (but not limited to) Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Tracfone, US Mobile, Ringcentral, Vonage, OnSIP, VoIP.ms, BulkVS, Microsoft Teams, TextNow, Google Voice, Bandwith, Comcast, Frontier, Twilio, Callcentric, Ooma, MagicJack, Anveo, British Telecom, Vodafone, Softbank, China Telecom, and Bell Canada.		Service providers '''''include''''' companies who sell (or otherwise make a profit from) telephone service to the general public (residential, small business, enterprise customers) including (but not limited to) Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Tracfone, US Mobile, Ringcentral, Vonage, OnSIP, VoIP.ms, BulkVS, Microsoft Teams, TextNow, Google Voice, Bandwith, Comcast, Frontier, Twilio, Callcentric, Ooma, MagicJack, Anveo, British Telecom, Vodafone, Softbank, China Telecom, and Bell Canada.

	Service providers '''''do not include''''' internal phone systems (e.g. a pbx in business, a government phone system), phone system manufacturers (e.g. Cisco, Nortel/Lucent/Avaya, Digium/Sangoma), and phone networks for telephone ~~enthsaints~~ collectors (e.g. switching networks, community PBXes, hosted line services).		Service providers '''''do not include''''' internal phone systems (e.g. a pbx in business, a government phone system), phone system manufacturers (e.g. Cisco, Nortel/Lucent/Avaya, Digium/Sangoma), and phone networks for telephone enthusiasts and collectors (e.g. switching networks, community PBXes, hosted line services).

CaptainChris at 20:32, 12 October 2025

2025-10-12T20:32:02Z

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	Service providers '''''include''''' companies who sell (or otherwise make a profit from) telephone service to the general public (residential, small business, enterprise customers) including (but not limited to) Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Tracfone, US Mobile, Ringcentral, Vonage, OnSIP, VoIP.ms, BulkVS, Microsoft Teams, TextNow, Google Voice, Bandwith, Comcast, Frontier, Twilio, Callcentric, Ooma, MagicJack, Anveo, British Telecom, Vodafone, Softbank, China Telecom, and Bell Canada.		Service providers '''''include''''' companies who sell (or otherwise make a profit from) telephone service to the general public (residential, small business, enterprise customers) including (but not limited to) Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Tracfone, US Mobile, Ringcentral, Vonage, OnSIP, VoIP.ms, BulkVS, Microsoft Teams, TextNow, Google Voice, Bandwith, Comcast, Frontier, Twilio, Callcentric, Ooma, MagicJack, Anveo, British Telecom, Vodafone, Softbank, China Telecom, and Bell Canada.

	Service providers '''''do not include''''' internal phone systems (e.g. a pbx in business, a government phone system), phone system manufacturers (e.g. Cisco, Nortel/Lucent/Avaya, Digium/Sangoma), and phone networks for telephone enthsaints collectors (e.g. as switching networks, community PBXes, hosted line services).		Service providers '''''do not include''''' internal phone systems (e.g. a pbx in business, a government phone system), phone system manufacturers (e.g. Cisco, Nortel/Lucent/Avaya, Digium/Sangoma), and phone networks for telephone enthsaints collectors (e.g. switching networks, community PBXes, hosted line services).

CaptainChris: Created page with "A service provider is a business that sells telephone service. They are many ways they can deliver the service to the customer, such as POTS, VoIP, Cellular, PRI, or Satellite. Most providers speicalize in one of these. The biggest providers are "Tier-1" meaning they own and maintain telecom equipment (e.g. AT&T, Verizon, Bandwidth), while most carriers are "Tier-2" or "Tier-3", meaning they resell service from the higher tier providers, usually including their own set o..."

2025-10-12T20:30:49Z

Created page with "A service provider is a business that sells telephone service. They are many ways they can deliver the service to the customer, such as POTS, VoIP, Cellular, PRI, or Satellite. Most providers speicalize in one of these. The biggest providers are "Tier-1" meaning they own and maintain telecom equipment (e.g. AT&T, Verizon, Bandwidth), while most carriers are "Tier-2" or "Tier-3", meaning they resell service from the higher tier providers, usually including their own set o..."

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A service provider is a business that sells telephone service. They are many ways they can deliver the service to the customer, such as POTS, VoIP, Cellular, PRI, or Satellite. Most providers speicalize in one of these. The biggest providers are "Tier-1" meaning they own and maintain telecom equipment (e.g. AT&T, Verizon, Bandwidth), while most carriers are "Tier-2" or "Tier-3", meaning they resell service from the higher tier providers, usually including their own set of features. [[Service Providers|Learn more.]]

=== '''Article criteria for WikiPhone''' ===
Service providers '''''include''''' companies who sell (or otherwise make a profit from) telephone service to the general public (residential, small business, enterprise customers) including (but not limited to) Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Tracfone, US Mobile, Ringcentral, Vonage, OnSIP, VoIP.ms, BulkVS, Microsoft Teams, TextNow, Google Voice, Bandwith, Comcast, Frontier, Twilio, Callcentric, Ooma, MagicJack, Anveo, British Telecom, Vodafone, Softbank, China Telecom, and Bell Canada.

Service providers '''''do not include''''' internal phone systems (e.g. a pbx in business, a government phone system), phone system manufacturers (e.g. Cisco, Nortel/Lucent/Avaya, Digium/Sangoma), and phone networks for telephone enthsaints collectors (e.g. as switching networks, community PBXes, hosted line services).