On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 04:29 -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote: > Anyone know any more details? How do they offer $20:year, when most > VoIP competitors charge at least $15-35:month? Are they using Asterisk > for infrastructure - any thing more than maybe just voicemail?
I dont know this specifically, but some stuff to look for. I have seen unlimited calls advertised but it was voip only. One advertised it in such a way to indicate that you could call the pstn, but in reality you had to buy their ATA (at several times the normal price) which has both FXO/FXS jacks and plug in your regular landline. And for this they charged a subscription fee. "unlimited" is also the most abused term in the industry. I have seen people advertise unlimited and mean fewer than 2000 minutes a month. That works out to just over 1 hour per day in the course of a month, or 1/24 of what unlimited really is (1/48 if you count the fact they give you 2 channels to use). Many advertise "unlimited" when they mean "flat rate" and regulators arent doing anything to stop this. Personally I think its false advertising to say unlimited and define that as "with limits", but its common place. The other end is that a couple years ago skype offered $15 unlimited calling to US48, then increased it to I think $30/year. I dont know if they still offer this price, but basically its a "well funded company trying to steal customers". So if you do look into this company a bit more you may want to see if they are doing these things, and if so does that explain the hows and whys of their pricing regime. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --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