I have a feeling that Skype could make a lot of money if they sold SIP gateway access to their network at $0.02 per minute. This would be enough to avoid price competition on LD calls and I think there could be quite a market for that... l.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:17:48 +0200, randulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From time to time, various ways of connecting asterisk SIP channels to > skype has been discussed here. This Friday, one of the subjects of our > weekly Voip Users Conference will be about trying to connect our > asterisk pbx with Skype. > > I have no nexus with Skype, Paypal or Ebay. In fact, (Note for > google:) I have had recent serious ID theft problems resulting in > fraudulent sales that Ebay is not helping me resolve - I hate Ebay - > Ebay does NOT seriously fight fraud, they sweep it under the rug. > > Still, many of us are interested in this asterisk-Skype connection. > For me, the "big attraction" is that our customers, many of whom have > travelers in hotels connected the *their* home offices via Skype could > call in to our system free of LD charges. Good for the customer. For > us it means I don't need a PC running Skype to get that call, I can be > on vacation with no computers on and get that Skype call on a $60 > Chinese IAX2 phone (or even a regular phone) and have our CDR note the > time and length of the call. > > I would really like to hear from someone has who *successfully and > satisfactorily* connected to Skype and continues to do so in a > business setting. > > Please consider joining the Voip Users Conference to tell your story: > > http://VoipUsersConference.org > > Fridays at 12:30 Eastern Time in the USA. Any links to full accounts > and stories of successful ploys to use skype and asterisk together > (other than the obviously googleable) are welcome here of course, tia. > > There are other reasons to join the VOIP Users Conference such as the > great core group of people we have with us from Digium, Voicepulse, > IPKall, Trixbox, Lumnevox and the users community in general. > > Regards, > > Randy > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > -- Loway Research - Home of QueueMetrics http://queuemetrics.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
