On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Preston Garrison wrote: > Before you start babbling, i think you need to find yourself more > educated. a PRI in a datacenter will run you less then $400 per month, > it will provide you with 24 channels, with NO PER MINUTE fee. Lets see > that's less then $20 a month, and you can receive and place as many > calls as you like. I think the OP was referring to per-minute fees on outbound. > > Secondly we are using VOIP here people, just because Digium makes some > of these handy pri cards, why the hell would you even use one. If you > can get the volume you connect direct to sprint, l3, GBLX, xo, and tons > of other providers via SIP. There is no per channel fee, and their is no > limit on what you can do. In fact if you want to pay less then $10 per > channel, you can get unlimited channels from L3 as well, which allows > you basically unlimited inbound and outbound calling, again with NO PER > MINUTE FEE. Nobody will do unlimited channels.
> Now i understand not everyone has the volume to go direct, but pick > one of the thousands of VOIP providers out there, that do go direct, > and get yourself no limits. VOIPs 1.2c/minute seems pretty expensive if > you are going to start adding in a monthly fee just to place a call. > That $10/month is almost 1000 minutes of usage at their 1.2c rate, > which i doubt most people even use. Which means if you do use 1000 > minutes, you are actually paying $.024 cents a minute. All this and you > get to be with a provider that doesn't have the most glowing reviews. > This is not a bash on VOIP, because I think they are trying hard to > get decent products to their consumers. This is more a bash on all you > stupid, uneducated, asterisk users out there, who are dumb enough to > fall for the 1.2c a minute rate, and think that's not only what you are > really paying, but also expect some guy to give you awesome support as > well. Ahhhahah. You made my day. -alex _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz