Ian Cheong wrote: > At 7:57 pm +1000 27/1/06, john dooley wrote: >> I disagree with Ian on costings. > > Most telcos are on 15c local calls at business rates. > > Internode's Nodephone is one of the few Voip (2?) providers that has > built infrastructure to support quality of service for qulaity VOIP and > their local calls are 18c. Long distance is cheap at 18c untimed anywhere. > > Do other providers that claim to offer cheaper voice calls on VOIP > manage QoS?? >
VoIP doesn't just mean cheaper outward calls. In our case I hope it will eliminate the need for a second PABX at a branch practice. Until Jan 2005 our practice provided infrastructure services to the general practice at the local hospital. Rather than have a dedicated PABX at the branch for what was always likely to be a short term arrangement we used Telstra's Centel system (an exchange based PABX arrangement for which you pay a premium on the line subscription) to link to 3 standard phones at the branch. The additional cost of this to our phone bill was about $500/month (line rentals + calls), not including the ADSL at the branch. We are now about to establish a permanant branch in a town nearby but on this occasion we're going to equip the branch with four IP handsets which interface to the private side of the new PABX at the main surgery via VPN. These cost about $600 per seat including the handsets and licences, but the ongoing costs are negligible. They have full functionality compared with the on-site standard digital handsets . I've had 3 of these IP sets on trial at home for the last month. The quality is satisfactory even if I select an outward VoIP line for an STD call - (meaning there are 2 VoIP hops involved, one from the IP handset to the main PABX and another from the PABX to the target number). The cost of this sort of technology has now dropped to the point where it is an ideal option for multi-site practices who are upgrading their PABXs. Ideal, that is if you don't want to roll your own asterix system. Tony _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
