> Ok lets try another "real-world" example: You have an internet > connection via cable and you don't want to pay the 25.25 monthly fee to > Swi$$com for your telephone number you can circumvent that by using a > VoIP-provider which gateways to the POTS.
Cablecom charges CHF 20, I don't see much difference here. Besides, a serious telephony provider needs a telephone switch, which is of order of half a million CHF one-time investment. Plus it needs a decent billing system, another few hundred francs. It has also to re-engineer its transport network to enable QoS along the whole way of VoIP packets. That's quite some worktime and probably hardware costs too. Having all that in mind, I don't see any realistic room for VoIP business. Margins are too low already. Perhaps it could work in a place with higher residential density, say, Hong Kong or Kuala Lumpur. my 2 cents... _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.init7.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
