One of the things I love about CallVantage and Broadvoice is how rapidly each of those companies support teams jumps on problems and get back to me with answers, usually its a senior tech or ops person. Sometimes it’s a ranking executive, but always the problem gets resolved, even if I’m proxing for a reader who has gotten frustrated.
With Gizmo, like Skype, they use one of those online systems where you enter a trouble ticket. While that may be good for some people (i.e. techies) as a business person and media member, I’m a bit more interested in having someone “talk” with me about the problem, understand the problem, and discuss the solution process.
That’s why I was floored by the reply I received from Gizmo’s support person who shall remain nameless to my report that calls to my CallVantage number would not terminate, and received a “Number Not In Service” error message which from what I can tell meant that Gizmo couldn’t fully complete the call to the number when called directly or when the call was forwarded from my SBC PSTN line, a test that I regularly run with every VoIP provider I test (fyi-Skype works perfectly on this test) Here’s what I received back:
Andy,
I received the same result when calling from a cell phone and from my gizmo phone.
Your number just keeps on ringing with no pickup. I would suggest trying this again
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Ticket ID:
HZM-OMMITTED
Tracking URL:
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Created On:
02 Jul 2005 06:32 PM
Last Update:
02 Jul 2005 06:32 PM
Status:
Closed
The tech’s response doesn’t make any sense at all, as not only doesn’t it replicate my experience, it implies that my phone service doesn’t answer, something received dozen or so voice mails I received yesterday, or the over 30 calls my CallVantage call log of incoming calls shows, including my Gizmo 747 number reaching it. As a result I reopened the trouble ticket. Of course the Gizmo team can always call me on Gizmo too to talk about it 🙂
UPDATE–Got a call from Michael Robertson…he’s looking into this and thinks it’s a PSTN termination partner issue.