I am curious if anyone is familiar enough to know what is stopping an individual from becoming their own VoIP provider? How does one associate a telephone number from the PSTN with an IP address? It would seem that the price of equipment has gone down enough to begin considering this. If I can buy a $500 router, and be done with it, why not....
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