Exactly -- you can sell calling cards or something similar to those who live here and have family abroad.
There's another great reason to do this, though. It involves US companies that have sales sites abroad. It is the same basic principle as below -- instead of paying X + Y for minutes, you start only paying X for minutes. And in many (many) cases, dialing abroad-to-abroad is more expensive than the combined cost of US-to-abroad1 and US-to-abroad2. About three or so years ago, this was true of France to Germany. Our company saved money by having our people in France trigger a call to themselves on the Internet, then use our service to call Germany. The two calls were much cheaper (like $.40 a minute cheaper -- no joke) than the one call France-to-Germany. This may, of course, no longer be true of the phone services in Europe; but it most certainly still is true in South America and other places. Thomas Christie There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean-Michel Hiver Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:53 To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Building a business using IAX? Jeff Grammer wrote: > I see a lot of posts on this list asking for termination in other > countries. What is the business model that this works under? One of the oldest business model in the world: commerce. You buy minutes for X, you sell them for X + Y. The tricky part is having the right connections to buy cheap. IAX2 isn't very widespread though. H.323 and SIP are much more popular. _______________________________________________ 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
