This is an excellent idea! I would like to know if anybody wants to take it further or has ideas built on this, count me in. :)
Cheers On 6/21/05, Kenneth Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For all Inter-exchange carriers using Asterisk, > > Someone posted recently on the list about doing something to combat > credit card fraud that the IXPs are encountering right now. I have a > suggestion -- unity. > > You would greatly benefit not only yourselves, but the community at > large by building what we really need: a decentralized, uniform, > peer-to-peer, secure voice relay system. > > All of you need the same things right now: secure, fraud resistant > payment systems, an easy to use configuration interface, least cost > routing, and the acquisition of cheaper, route ratings, and better > termination/origination lines in foreign countries. In essence, you need > to pool your resources and become what you are destined to be: a minute > exchange. > > Your competition is Skype, Vonage, VoicePulse, CallVantage, CallWing, > etc. -- not each other. I really want to see Asterisk grow as a > communications platform, and that will not happen if the small > commercial enterprises that support it die because they cannot compete > on the same scale that the big dogs do. > > Jeremy, David, Mike, Mark, and all the others, band together. All of you > currently resell the same companies, and use the same software: > Asterisk. I assure you that Vonage will be bought up by one of the > failed VoIP arms of the AT&Ts, Verizons and Cingulars of the world, but > only after Vonage buys out VoicePulse. And if you think the industry is > too competitive now, just wait until Netscape, er, I mean Google, > launches their Communicator product in early 2007, and Microsoft and > Yahoo start offering similar services. > > Realize that Vonage, Mr. Pulver's gig, started out as a concept for a > telecom minute auction. A minute exchange! But back then, the technology > wasn't available (or was too expensive) to pull it off, and so was a > failed business concept. > > Become the NYSE of telecom, and make it open so that any company or > individual can directly buy or sell minutes on your network. That's what > people, consumers and businesses, really want. > > -- > Kenneth Shaw > Director of Technology > ExpiTrans, Inc. > 2428 Newport Blvd #8 > Costa Mesa, CA 92627 > tel: 949 278 7288 > fax: 866 494 5043 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Biz mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
