On Tue, 2 May 2006, John Lange wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The facts are simple, paying your competition to complete calls is not > > > good business. When one VoIP customer calls another routing the call > > > over the PSTN just does not make sense. > > Don't get me wrong, I wish you best, and I think its the Right Way, but, > > this has a low chance of happening. > > On the contrary; it is happening. There are already examples of peering > networks for VoIP. VoIP is not necessary Voice over Intarweb. VoIP good, Intarweb bad.
> > > a) while many carriers run IP in their network, I doubt any of them will > > want to *accept* calls from another carrier over public intarweb, much > > less *send* the calls to another carrier. I certainly won't. > > If there are VoIP providers who don't believe in sending calls over the > Internet it would seem they are not in the right business. *plonk* VoIP is not necessary Voice over Intarweb. VoIP good, Intarweb bad. > > Unless there's some push for "carrier-only private network to connect > > enum-enabled carriers" or carriers interconnecting via switches at > > soem fabrics, I doubt you will have any big boys using it. > > Private closed networks are what we have now. If a provider wants to use > use a private closed network then the existing PSTN is a much better > solution. *plonk* VoIP is not necessary Voice over Intarweb. VoIP good, Intarweb bad. -alex _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
