On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Steve Kennedy wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:53:41PM +0100, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote: > > > More than 60% of our outbound calls are now to mobiles, so the time has > > come to whack in a gsm channel bank. > > Does anyone have any preference of bank ? Do you use a PRI or VOIP > > connection from the bank to asterisk ? Real-world experiences are sooooo > > much better than marketing blurb ;) > > We currently have a TE412P with a free socket, so we have a choice > > either way. I am looking for up to 30 sims to be connected, and we are > > based in the UK. > > Any advice is gratefully received. > > Are you providing any kind of service to 3rd parties? If so you are NOT > allowed to run a GSM gateway. > > If it's purely your own traffic i.e. say company PBX to mobile traffic > then it is allowed. > > Ofcom ruled on this a while back. > > Saying that I've used a Portech GSM gateway on SIP and it works well. >
Does anyone know if this is true in the States? I run a prepaid card service, and never thought about trying to use SIM cards for termination :) j _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users