Hi Victoria, long time no email ;^)
(Not sure if you were asking me or the other Matt...but here is my reply)
I am using Asterisk. I am also getting my trunks directly from an
ITSP, so I don't have to get PRI channels. That is much more flexible
than using PRIs, because all you have to do is add more bandwidth and
CPU - no messing around with weird interface cards or the like. Who
the hell wants PRIs anyway - that would mean dealing with the phone
company again! I had enough of that in my first dialup ISP.
FWIW, I think I may have found a solution to the 911 problem. If we
could get five or six operators on board, I think we could all solve the
911 problem together and go forward with our butts covered. Anyone who
is interested, hit me offlist ([EMAIL PROTECTED], not this
email). If the cost efficiencies pan out correctly - it should be
right around $10/month per customer to deliver a voip line with an
inbound DID number and an adequate amount of long distance - with those
costs going down as volumes increase. This is using a server sitting at
the NOC, so quality of the calls will be superior to any other VOIP
system that someone tries to use on your network.
Catch you later,
Matt Larsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Victoria wrote:
Matt,
What type VoIP are you beta-testing?
We are currently looking at asterisk, but I am concerned about how many
subscribers I can maintain per PRI. So far the numbers I am getting do not
add up to profitability. I almost makes more sense to resell another
providers product.
Victoria
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I've got working VOIP on my network, beta-tested and ready to roll out but
without e911. I like VOIP, because I have people subscribing to our service
just so they can get Vonage and ditch their land line - but this whole e911
thing is a fscking nightmare.
At what point does it make more sense to say screw the 911 and just go
forward? Aren't there a bunch of VOIP providers out there doing this
already? The cellcos have bought out their 911 requirements year after
year. I sense a court case in the making that will either force 911
adoption or throw it out for voip carriers. It is definitely a gray area
right now.
</RANT>
Matt Larsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom DeReggi wrote:
Revenue: 174.0 million net Loss $189.6million our marketing expenses
were $176.3million."/
Wow.
That would support my arguement that there is no part of the equation
more valuable than the portion responsible for the unique access to
the consumer via a verticle sell.
So if I'm a wireless company, and its just thirty seconds to say,
"would you like a VOIP phone with that broadband service" at order
time, its worth gold.
Way more than 10-14% commissions. Should we be paying our wholesale
VOIP provider only $5 out of the $25 that we charge? Thats what it
would infer by Vonage's numbers above.
Maybe Vonage should have taken partners more seriously?
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
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Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] VoIP/PBX Gateway appliance
Because Vonage et al, sell Resi VOIP cheaper than TDM Voice.
Why? Easier to market. Easier to take orders (notice I did not say
sell?)
But termination will be going up (already seeing rising costs for
Dedicated LD).
E-911 is not cheap (nor is it nationally available).
You can try to work with a friendly CLEC (or become one).
But Voice is way different from Data.
One bad 911 and you are being sued and possibly jailed.
Wouldn't you rather offer services that aren't competing against the
growing monster?
You would be better off selling cellular for a residual than selling
VOIP.
Vonage was going to IPO last year for $660M; this year they are
looking for $220M
In 1Q05:
"Vonage Holdings Corp. Founded in 2001, the Edison (N.J.) provider of
Internet phone service has raised $210 million and last year racked
up about $100 million in revenue. It has spent enough on marketing in
a bid to make itself a household name, and several VCs say it will go
public this year or next. But critics complain that while its ads
attract new customers, it doesn't retain as many as it should."
"Om says Vonage IPO. I don't think they can wait. Reports are their
growth is slowing, that costs are rising and that founder Jeffrey
Citron has a bundle of his own cash in the venture."
In 2006: /"The street writes: Vonage Holdings, moved to become the
first major Internet telephony player to go public by filing
Wednesday to raise up to $250 million via an initial offering of
stock and named a Tyco International executive as CEO. Our revenues
were $18.7million in 2003, $79.7million in 2004, and $174.0 million
for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2005," the company's prospectus
says."While our revenues have grown rapidly, we have experienced
increasing net losses, primarily driven by our increase in marketing
expenses. From the period of inception through Sept.30, 2005, our
cumulative net loss was $310 million. Our net loss for the nine
months ended Sept.30, 2005, was $189.6million. During the same
nine-month period, our marketing expenses were $176.3million."/
Jason Hensley wrote:
What about for those of us in small markets where the large VoIP
players don't have access numbers? What is your opinion on them
coming here? For instance, I'm in an area where the closest VoIP
provider's number is 100 miles away with probably 25 or so NXX's
that cannot call it locally. Not a feasible decision for a local
business as any phone calls to them will be long distance for local
residents. Is there a case for or against partnering / working with
a CLEC who has the ability to be WAY more flexible than the ILEC's,
have them drop you DS1's / PRI's / whatever and work with them on
getting local VoIP numbers for the folks in these areas? I'm
getting more and more people who want wireless Internet SOLELY
because they do not have a home phone line other than their cell
phone. Do you see that as what we're headed to? I do and I don't
personally. I think there will be a market of some kind for that,
but I feel as well that for at least the foreseeable future (say 10
years or so), markets such as mine will not be doing away with
wireline. Too many challenges for both cellular providers, and
WISP's due to terrain and sparseness of population.
I guess I'm having a hard time understanding why it cannot be
profitable, at least on some level.
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