On December 6, 2004 07:01 pm, Colin Anderson wrote: > You would need 1 broadband connection, and technically, you would need only > 1 ACCOUNT (I think that's the word you are looking for) but any VoIP > provider that doesn't want to go out of business right away would enforce > account limits so only 1 account could be in use at any one point in time.
Uh... why? You have minutes used -- what does it matter if you use them 1 at a time or 50 at a time? Seriously? What is your rationale between limiting concurrent calls and being able to stay alive in the VOIP industry? It makes no sense. > Otherwise, you could make an account and have 1000 people making calls at > the same time. Think of it in terms of software licensing: With a VoIP > account, you have a "license" to use their service, 1 user at a time making > 1 call at a time. In the software world, this is called concurrent > licensing. What's the problem with this? If you're being billed by the minute every minute every instance is using -- so your 1000 simultaneous calls would be using 1000 minutes. Seems profitable to me. I'd not use a VOIP provider that has assinine limits per account. Nufone's quite happy to charge me the same per-minute per call irrespective of how many I'm using at once, and I'm quite happy to give Nufone my business for not imposing stupid limits on me. -A. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
