Skyetel is a granular SIP trunk provider that offers many features, including: multi-tenant billing for the Vodia multi-tenant PBX, SMS features, DIDs, Endpoint health checks and more. Here’s how to set up the Skyetel SIP trunk with the Vodia phone system. 

Skyetel endpoint

The endpoint is where we will create an endpoint to the Skyetel network and the Vodia PBX routable IP address. Log in to your Skyetel account and navigate to the Endpoint group under “Endpoints.” 

Endpoint Groups

Click on add Endpoint Group and enter the following: 

• Name: Name of the customer
• Priority:  1 
• IP address: External IP address of the Vodia PBX 
• Port: 5060 
• Protocol: TCP or UDP 
• Description: Customer location or customer info 

Add the endpoint. 

Tenant

Skyetel also has a feature called “tenants," where you can set up your customer's billing information - this also includes the account ID, which is used to bill your tenant separately. Since Vodia is a multi-tenant phone system, it's also possible to use the same name under the account ID; in this case, it's best to use the FQDN created on the Vodia PBX. To learn how please visit create add URL: https://blog.vodia.com/skyetel_sip_trunk_vodia

For the tenant information enter the following: 

• Name: John Smith
• Phone Number: 7815556698
• Billing Emails: js@vodia.com
• Contact Name: John Smith
• Contact Phone number: 7815556698
• Account ID jscompany.pbx.com 

Purchasing a Skyetel Number

Next, you'll need to purchase a number for the Vodia PBX system. Navigate to Phone ---> Buy Phone Numbers 

• Category Local
• Quantity 1
• Phone Number: tick of the phone number box
• Area Code: Choose your area code and press search 
• MOU "Minutes of use" (enter your estimate for number of minutes the number will use) 

Assign Number 

To make and receive calls, you will need to assign it to a tenant on the Vodia PBX. Once the number has been purchased, click on the cog; you will see the number with a red dot - this indicates the number isn’t peered to the tenant. 

• Phone number: Phone number 
• SIP Format: Choose how many digits you want coming into the Vodia PBX phone system 
• Call Routing :Choose Endpoint Group 
• Endpoint Group: Choose endpoint c
• Tenant: Choose the tenant you want to bill 
• Save the configuration

Setting up the Skyetel on the Vodia phone system 

Now that the account is set up on the Skyetel SIP trunk provider, we can set up the Vodia PBX to use the account. 

Navigate to SIP trunk on your domain PBX and choose the Skyetel template to add your customer's DID, then press create. The template has everything set up for you, so there’s no need to change any settings. 

Also, the Vodia dial plan has already been created automatically, so you can make test calls. 

Sending the inbound call to an account 

Navigate to your new Skyetel SIP trunk and choose where you want to send the call. Here are some of the choices:

• Default
• Send calls to destination in the Request -URI
• Send all calls to a specific account
• Send to 10-digit DID
• Match extension after prefix 
• Use a list of expression 

For this tutorial, we are using default. The Vodia phone system will match the DID assigned to the extension and send the call to the user. Visit https://doc.vodia.com/docs/did-management for more information about DID management.