Bruce wrote:
Thanks for the replies. I do have vonage phone service and they have provided me a motorla device I plug into my broadband and also plug my phone into to make calls. this is a nice service for 30 bucks, but as with all things linux, why cant one connect to the PSTN for free?
I suspect that somebody, possibly you, paid for the computer you're running Linux on. Connecting to the PSTN costs money for pretty much the same reasons. As a personal aside, you do appear to be a bit hung up on the free beer aspect.
I mean isnt there a protocol one can use to get access to the pstn? What does vonage use to do this? Or do they have to pay for access to the pstn.
While I suspect that Vonage gets pretty nice wholesale rates, they most certainly do have to pay for access to the PSTN. You know, even AT&T has to pay for routing calls across those portions of the PSTN they don't own.
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