I pay less every month for my consumer VoIP service than I ever did, or would now, for my call traffic. And that's not even counting foreign calls, including ones to Europe and South Asia. Since it's flat rate, I talk much longer internationally, even leaving the line open for long business sessions.
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:39 -0400, Alex Pilosov wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Matthew Rubenstein wrote: > > > There is no way I'd ever let you near my "Commercial and > > Business-Oriented Asterisk" activity, which is the *only* legitimate > > subject of this mailing list. Not only are you laughably wrong about > > VoIP, you are a troll. There's no way you could convince me that you're > > anywhere near competent enough to trust my "business communications" to. > Funny, but I agree with this guy. > > There is no savings with VoIP. None. Call termination costs money. > Switching calls costs money. Converged network costs money to run, same as > TDM network. Converged network with proper QoS may cost *more* money to > run vs same TDM network. > > Vonage (and sunrocket, etc, consumer voip) business model is based on > a) losing money on every customer but making it up in volume > b) having customers accept subpar call quality (because of no guarantees > of internet-wide QoS) in exchange for lower fee. > > The retail consumer voip model does not work. I've said this 4 years ago, > when vonage first came out, and it is coming true now. > > Alex Pilosov | DSL, Colocation, Hosting Services > President | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 877-PILOSOFT x601 > Pilosoft, Inc. | http://www.pilosoft.com > > -- (C) Matthew Rubenstein _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
