On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 09:14 -0400, Chris Mason (Lists) wrote: > Forgive my ignorance but I don't understand how this works. Is the > presumption that the gsm to gsm calls are free or why is this better than > simply dialling the phone number via pstn? > I'm intrigued but clueless...
In South Africa - a monthly Fixed line (pstn=Telkom) to Cell phone (GSM) expenditure of R3000 (Three thousand rands - thats about 300 Euro) can be done with a "fixed" cell phone system with a monthly contract 'Talk 500' (500 minutes of calls) costing just under R800. (or 80 Euro)... ... so "least cost" routing of cell calls can save a bundle.. Also - The copper under South African streets is always fresh and new - because its often recycled (theft, sold to scrap merchants, sold as recycled copper to the wire manufacturers...). Having an alternative system to "fixed wire" can be useful between the cable being pinched and replaced :-) ps - I have heard that some 'fixed' mobile units do send the ClID down the 2-wire to the PABX (choice of encoding methods). pps So in SA, we have fixed gsm and pstn thats often on the move :-( -- . . ___. .__ Posix Systems - Sth Africa. e.164 VOIP ready /| /| / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mark J Elkins, Cisco CCIE / |/ |ARK \_/ /__ LKINS Tel: +27 12 807 0590 Cell: +27 82 601 0496 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
