Hi,

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:39 -0500, Prem wrote:
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> the person who is being called. This would mean the receiving person
> would be charged ... but only a local call charge ... which would come
> out to be Rs. 1.50/- per minute. May be a bit more considering that a
> US number has to be maintained, may be a 800 number.

Hmmm... a local collect call????  ;-)

> Now, if the caller has a VoIP phone, then they might be able to even
> bypass the SIP Proxy and place a direct call to our Linux PBX.

SIP Phones (of Cisco make among others) can talk directly to Asterisk
PBX. In fact a callcenter *very* recently setup in Jo'burg, South Africa
is using such a technique. 

cheers,
--indra.


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