Wholesale SIP Trunking

Wholesale SIP trunking. Carrier rates, no middleman.

Wholesale SIP trunking is carrier trunk capacity bought at per-minute volume rates — for resale, or for operations that push more traffic than any retail plan is built to carry. SIPNEX sells it direct from the FCC-licensed carrier. Unlimited channels. A-level STIR/SHAKEN. No long-term contract.

Wholesale vs. retail SIP trunking.

The distinction from retail is economic, not technical. Both run the same protocol. What changes at wholesale is the rate structure, the volume, and who owns the customer.

Retail trunks are packaged for end users: per-seat plans, bundled features, office-scale volume, and support that assumes the buyer has never read a SIP trace. Wholesale strips all of that out. You get raw carrier capacity at tiered per-minute rates, billed 12/6, with unlimited concurrent channels and no per-channel, setup, porting, or platform fees. If you are provisioning phones for one office, retail SIP trunking is the right product. If you are moving hundreds of thousands of minutes a month, wholesale is.

Who buys wholesale SIP? ITSPs building their own voice products on carrier capacity. Resellers and MSPs who sell under their own brand and keep the customer relationship. PBX integrators provisioning trunks across dozens of client systems. Dialer shops running Asterisk and VICIdial at volumes where a tenth of a cent per minute is real money. Most wholesale SIP trunk providers serving these buyers are aggregators — two or three hops removed from the switch that actually terminates the call. Every hop adds margin and subtracts accountability. Buying from SIPNEX removes the hops.

The credentials behind the trunk are the carrier's own. SIPNEX holds direct FCC authorization, files FCC Form 499, signs every call with its own STIR/SHAKEN SP-KI certificate for A-level attestation at every tier, is registered in the Robocall Mitigation Database, and is a registered RespOrg. The full carrier-services picture — termination, origination, DIDs, peering — lives on the wholesale VoIP page. If all you need is outbound minutes, SIPNEX also operates as a wholesale SIP termination provider — see wholesale voice termination for termination-only detail.

Wholesale SIP trunk pricing.

Pricing at SIPNEX is volume-tiered and published. No quote gate, no NDA, no "contact sales to see a number." Rates start at $0.025-$0.030 per minute at the entry tier and step down to $0.005-$0.008 per minute at 10 million or more monthly minutes:

  • Entry tier — under 100,000 minutes/month: $0.025-$0.030 per minute
  • Top published tier — 10M+ minutes/month: $0.005-$0.008 per minute
  • Above 10M minutes/month — custom pricing
  • Billing increments — 12/6 (6-second steps after a 12-second minimum)
  • Per-channel, setup, porting, and platform fees — none

Tier assignment is automatic. We meter your actual monthly usage and apply the matching rate — cross into a higher tier and the better rate applies without renegotiation, without a contract amendment, without a call to an account manager. Concurrent channels are unlimited at every tier, so concurrency never shows up as a line item. The current tier table is on the published volume-tier pricing page.

What's included on every wholesale trunk.

Every trunk ships with the full carrier feature set. Nothing below is an add-on, an upsell, or a higher-tier unlock:

  • A-level STIR/SHAKEN attestation — signed directly with SIPNEX's own SP-KI certificate, at every volume tier
  • Unlimited concurrent channels — no caps, no per-channel fees
  • G.711u native pass-through — with G.729 fallback for bandwidth-constrained links
  • Sub-3-second average PDD — calls start ringing while slower routes are still setting up
  • 24-hour trunk provisioning — with same-day DID provisioning for most orders
  • CNAM registration — included with every DID
  • Nationwide US DID inventory — with bulk DID volume discounts

One trunk layer, every platform on top.

Most SIP trunking solutions are packaged around a single workload — an office phone system, a call center seat, an API. Wholesale capacity is workload-agnostic, because the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the common signaling layer under nearly every modern voice product. Unified communications suites bundle voice with other communication channels — messaging, video, presence — but the voice leg still rides a trunk. The communications platforms you build or resell decide the feature set; the trunk underneath decides whether the call connects fast and sounds right.

Contact centers are the demanding case. Outbound campaigns burst to hundreds of simultaneous calls, inbound queues live and die on call routing, and agents hear a dip in call quality before any dashboard graphs it. This is where the trunk spec earns its keep: unlimited concurrent channels absorb the bursts, G.711u pass-through keeps audio unprocessed end to end, and sub-3-second post-dial delay keeps agents talking instead of listening to silence. Fewer dead-air seconds and fewer dropped calls register as customer satisfaction on the other end of the line.

For resellers, the wholesale layer is what makes the retail pitch work: business communications that complete more calls for less money. The cost savings come from tier math rather than corner-cutting, which keeps reselling this capacity cost-effective as volume grows. Aggregators advertise global reach — every country on one rate card — by stitching together other carriers' routes; SIPNEX runs the opposite model, keeping its voice services US-focused and close to the switch that terminates them. Package the trunks as your own SIP trunk services, and every phone number you provision ships with CNAM registration included.

Built for resale.

White-label is not a special program bolted onto these trunks — it is how they are designed to be used. You buy wholesale SIP capacity at tiered carrier rates, set your own retail rates, and sell under your own brand. Your customers see your name on the invoice, your portal, your support line. SIPNEX stays invisible underneath: the switch, the attestation, the rate deck.

The margin math works because nothing structural eats it. No platform fees. No per-channel fees. No long-term contract holding you to volumes you have not hit yet. And because SIPNEX signs with its own SP-KI certificate, your end customers' calls carry A-level attestation — a claim most resellers cannot make, because their upstream is itself a reseller. The commercial structure for building on SIPNEX capacity is documented in the VoIP reseller program. At 1 million minutes per month and above, direct SIP peering between your switch and ours is available.

Published Wholesale Rates

Entry tier at $0.025-$0.030/min under 100k monthly minutes, down to $0.005-$0.008/min at 10M+. Billed 12/6. Published tiers, not quote-gated negotiations.

Unlimited Concurrent Channels

No channel caps and no per-channel fees at any tier. Burst to whatever your switch can generate — capacity scales with your traffic, not your invoice.

A-Level Attestation, Every Tier

SIPNEX signs with its own STIR/SHAKEN SP-KI certificate. Every trunk carries A-level attestation, whether you push 50k minutes or 10 million.

24-Hour Provisioning

Trunks live within 24 hours. Same-day DID provisioning for most orders. No onboarding queue between your signed order and your first completed call.

G.711u Native, Sub-3s PDD

G.711u pass-through with G.729 fallback and sub-3-second average post-dial delay. Standard SIP end to end — no transcoding surprises, no proprietary gateway.

White-Label Ready

Resell under your own brand at your own rates. Your customers see you; we stay invisible underneath. Direct SIP peering available at 1M+ minutes per month.

Frequently asked questions.

What is wholesale SIP trunking?
Wholesale SIP trunking is carrier trunk capacity sold at per-minute volume rates instead of retail per-seat or per-channel pricing. Buyers — ITSPs, resellers, PBX integrators, and dialer operations — route high monthly volume over the trunks or resell the capacity under their own brand. SIPNEX provides these trunks directly as an FCC-licensed carrier, so the rate you pay is the carrier's rate, not a reseller's markup on a reseller's markup.
How is wholesale SIP trunking priced?
By per-minute volume tiers. SIPNEX wholesale SIP trunk pricing starts at $0.025-$0.030 per minute under 100,000 monthly minutes and falls to $0.005-$0.008 per minute at 10 million or more, with custom pricing above that. Billing runs 12/6 — 6-second increments after a 12-second minimum. There are no per-channel, setup, porting, or platform fees, and tier assignment is automatic based on your actual monthly usage — no renegotiation to get the better rate.
What is the difference between wholesale and retail SIP trunking?
Retail SIP trunking is packaged for end users: per-seat or per-channel plans, bundled features, office-scale volume. Wholesale is raw carrier capacity priced per minute for operators who move volume — rates drop as usage grows, channels are unlimited, and the trunk is built to be resold or consumed by a platform. SIPNEX sells both; wholesale buyers deal directly with the carrier at published tiered rates.
How many concurrent channels do wholesale SIP trunks support?
There is no channel limit. SIPNEX trunks support unlimited concurrent channels at every volume tier, with no per-channel fees. Capacity is governed by your switch and your bandwidth, not by an artificial cap on the trunk — with sub-3-second average post-dial delay.
Which PBX and softswitch platforms work with wholesale SIP trunks?
Any platform that speaks standard SIP. SIPNEX wholesale trunks interoperate with Asterisk, VICIdial, FreePBX, 3CX, and the softswitch platforms ITSPs typically run. Signaling is standard SIP with G.711u native pass-through and G.729 fallback, so there is no proprietary gateway, SDK, or vendor lock sitting between your switch and the carrier network.
Can I white-label SIPNEX wholesale trunks?
Yes. SIPNEX supports white-label and reseller arrangements on its wholesale trunks: you set your own rates, your customers see your brand, and SIPNEX stays invisible as the underlying carrier. No platform fees or per-channel fees eat your margin, and direct SIP peering is available once you pass 1 million minutes per month.

Wholesale SIP trunking, straight off the switch.

Trunks priced from the carrier's own rate deck. Provisioned in 24 hours.