Hi Indranil, Thank you for your inputs. I am aware of bellster. But it assumes that I provide it for free to others too, which I am not intending here, well atleast my father wont understand its philosophy. Moreover it is cheap only when you have free minutes on your plan.
The option of calling direct from a SIP based phone. Do you know of anyone who has done it other than at a callcenter level? Callcenters spend lakhs of rupees if not crores to set up their infrastructure, I cant afford it, rather my father wont allow me to risk so much on this initiative. And well, as for the small print we are too small fry for VSNL to worry about us ;-) Anyway, VoIP is now legal, no worry there. The thing I am not sure about is networking asterix servers across cities and then providing calls to other cities in India at local call rates. Like for example I put one server in Chennai and the other in Kolkata, then make it public so that people calling to Kolkata from our shop do it at local rate. On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:53:28 +0530, Indranil Das Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adding to my earlier reply: > > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 03:39 +0530, Indranil Das Gupta wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:39 -0500, Prem wrote: > > <snipped> > > 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. > > This P2P project http://www.bellster.net/web/ by Jeff Pulvar could be of > interest to you. > > As they say in the Phantom comics - "For those [readers] who came in > late", Jeff is like the big Kahuna of the H.323 world :) > > cheers, > -indra. > > PS. BTW, do make sure that you do not break any rules when/if you > attempt to do this on a commercial basis. ISD calls are something that > VSNL survives on, so its quite possible that the govt policy might have > put something in the fineprint to get the smart, little guys in > trouble ;-) > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Indranil Das Gupta, Project Lead, CASTLE Project > [Computer Aided Studies, Teaching and Learning Environment] > In collaboration with: > West Bengal University of Technology > Calcutta, INDIA > www.wbut.net > ------------------------------------------------------------- > L2C2.ORG - Bringing Localized Low-Cost Computing to People > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- - Prem ---------------------------------------------------- Prem Kumar Aparanji M: 00919830631687 [Kolkata, WB, INDIA] http://prem.shaliniprem.com http://www.shaliniprem.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
