Texas
Area code 940, Texas. The seven digits spell 940-LITENET. This is the number a new subscriber is given, and the one the front page puts in the box.
+1 940 548 3638 940-LITENET Primary
Coverage
Three numbers.
Thirty-two lines.
LiteNet has no local access numbers, no POP list and no roaming agreement. It has three ordinary US telephone numbers, all landing on the same answering pool. If your telephone can dial the United States, you are covered.
Pennsylvania
Area code 610, Pennsylvania. It reaches the same answering pool as every other number here.
+1 610 922 1996
Boston
Area code 857, Boston. The seven digits spell 857-DIALUPS. It reaches the same answering pool as every other number here.
+1 857 342 5877 857-DIALUPS
| Number | Rate centre | Spells | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| +1 940 548 3638 | Texas | 940-LITENET | Primary |
| +1 610 922 1996 | Pennsylvania | — | — |
| +1 857 342 5877 | Boston | 857-DIALUPS | — |
All three numbers are matched by the same dialplan handler and admitted at the same point, so there is exactly one call path to reason about rather than three. Your account works on any of them. A rate centre is where the call rings, not a coverage claim: it is the only reason to pick one number over another.
What a call to LiteNet costs you
Plainly: whatever your own telephone carrier charges for a call to Texas, Pennsylvania or Boston. LiteNet charges nothing for the call, receives nothing from it, and has no way of seeing what you were billed.
They are ordinary numbers
All three are standard geographic US numbers. None is toll-free — calling them is not free to you. None is a premium-rate or shared-cost number — nobody is being billed extra and no revenue comes back to LiteNet. They are the same kind of number as a shop or a neighbour.
Your carrier sets the price
On most modern US plans a domestic call is included in the bundle and costs nothing extra. On a metered line, a legacy long-distance plan, a prepaid mobile or an international call, it costs whatever your provider's rate is. Check your own tariff before you leave a modem connected for three hours.
Reachable from anywhere
Anywhere that can dial a US number can reach LiteNet — dial +1 and the ten digits, with whatever international prefix your country uses. There is no geographic restriction, no allowlist and no registration of your calling number. A modem in Osaka gets the same carrier a modem in Reading does.
If you are calling over VoIP
An ATA works, with a caveat that has nothing to do with LiteNet: modem tones survive uncompressed G.711 and are destroyed by the compressed codecs most VoIP providers prefer. If your adapter can be pinned to G.711 with echo cancellation and any “voice enhancement” turned off, a call will usually train. If it cannot, the modems will handshake and fail, repeatedly, and no amount of retrying will fix it.
Thirty-two at once
Thirty-two connection slots exist, and thirty-two is what LiteNet will actually carry at the same time, so the size of the pool is the only limit. That number is measured rather than guessed: a soft modem has to feed the DSP a frame every 20 ms for the length of the call, and the sweep that establishes how many can do that at once is re-run on the hardware that is answering. It stands until the hardware changes and the sweep is run again.
32
Concurrent callers on the standard pool. The 14.4k number has its own, smaller pool of thirty-two
33rd
The call that gets a busy signal, exactly as it would have in 1996
1
Public IP address everyone shares, on one virtual machine
Thirty-two is a hard ceiling. The carrier delivers up to
thirty-two calls and the answering pool holds
thirty-two slots, so the two agree and the pool refuses the
thirty-third.
Refusing a call is better than degrading everyone already on one.
The numbers do not all draw on one pool, and that is worth knowing before
you pick one. The standard numbers share the thirty-two, so people on
one of those are people the other cannot have. The 14.4k number answers
on separate equipment with only thirty-two lines — it is the
faster path and it is much smaller, so it fills first.
Which means trying another number when one is busy CAN help, because you
may be moving to the other pool. There is no queue and no callback: a
busy line is busy, and the honest answer is to try again in a few
minutes.
Pick a number and dial it
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