On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:00:24PM -0400, Michael Trank wrote: > I think the money is made by locating the free conference services in > the networks of some > of the small rural telephone companies and cooperatives that are able to > charge the big carriers > on the order of several cents per minute for terminating calls to > numbers in their space. > These small carriers have termination fees that have been grandfathered > in from old FCC rules.
In the UK there are several "free" conferencing services. But then in the EU there are no such things as "free" calls (well there are, but they're charged somewhere). Conference systems run on numbers will generate termination for someone and telcos will generally pay for traffic to terminate on their networks. Steve -- NetTek Ltd UK mob +44 7775 755503 UK +44 20 7993 2612 / US +1 310 857 7715 / Fax +44 20 7483 2455 Skype/GoogleTalk/AIM/Gizmo/Mac stevekennedyuk / MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
