On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 14:23 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > On 10/12/05 13:59 trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com said the following: > > quality, why many people say VoIP isnt ready for primetime all the while > > not knowing that they prolly have talked on a VoIP call and not known > > it. > > ain't that the truth ! > > a local malaysian mobile operator has a service called BudgetIDD which > offers rates much, much cheaper than normal IDD. it works trivially by just > prepending 131 to the international number you're dialling. > > what many of the users of the service dont know is that the international > leg of the call is carried over VoIP (H.323 to be specific). i usually use > this as a counterpoint when ppl say that voip is generally not ready for > primetime. > AT&T routed many calls in america via VoIP. calls that did not start nor end as voip but that was the transport method. In one instance alone, to show the scope of this, AT&T dumped calls onto SBC as local traffic that really were long distance, and paid SBC the local access charge rate for those calls. When discovered by SBC the *difference* between what was paid and what should have been was $100M (about 1 years of calls). SBC sued and won, AT&T filed SEC 10ks to reflect it would cost AT&T about $100M/year from then on.
Now at pennies or less per minute it takes a whole lot of minutes to reach $100M as the difference. Yet most people that had AT&T as a long distance carrier didnt know this was going VoIP. This was a couple years ago, google has articles if you want to get them for 'proof'. I cant imagine that it would have decreased since then. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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