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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 | 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 | 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). | ||
Latest revision as of 07:34, 5 February 2026
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). Learn more.
Article criteria for WikiPhone
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), or phone system manufacturers (e.g. Cisco, Nortel/Lucent/Avaya, Digium/Sangoma).
Pages in category "Service Providers"
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