Mark Elkins wrote: >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). > > The Nokia 32 FCT sends CallerID to Asterisk. It can be configured to receive CallerID from the GSM network using a variety of protocols (FSK, DTMF, etc).
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