Craig wrote:
There is a great missunderstanding between what you guys are talking now
and what I want.
I am not looking for advertiser to support free calls.
However, I am asked now more often Can I test your service for a few
days?
These tests I have to pay from my own pocket. The customers
access based on CID.
Cheers,
Dean
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Demo phones
Yep, remember them well - I think the guy who was running it was called
Paul Davies (could be wrong) - no idea if they are still running.
I understand the big problem they had was securing advertising
contracts, people under estimate the 'startup cost' in securing
advertising (lol - something I'm
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 07:56 +1130, Craig wrote:
A few years ago there was a company that set up in Australia offering
free long distance calls, they played an add to you at the beginning and
then every so often.
Came out with a lot of fanfare and disappeared pretty quickly.
In america
Let me make sure I understand correctly, you have an existing system,
you want to put dialing constraings for demo accounts that will allow
them to call with an AbsoluteTimeout() of 2 minutes, log the number
dialed to prevent calling the same number (sounds like an AGI), randomly
play some sound
Yes, something similar has been done before with PSTN phones.
Callers would call a number, listen to a bunch of ads, then get X
minutes of free phone time for that one call.
This was about 5-10 years ago and was covered in news stories. I think
they might still be doing it.
Poking around on
