Re: [asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ?

2008-05-31 Thread Nitzan Kon
, 5/30/08, Mohammed Lambat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mohammed Lambat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ? To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 12:20 PM The Skype model has created a lot of stir in the Telecoms market since

Re: [asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ?

2008-05-31 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 23:37 -0700, Nitzan Kon wrote: Good luck to you. But I hope for your sake your pockets are VERY deep. You can't get something from nothing, and you will have to pay for the calls your users make. If you can subsidize it with advertisements and such, all the power to you -

Re: [asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ?

2008-05-31 Thread Nitzan Kon
--- On Sat, 5/31/08, Trixter aka Bret McDanel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may be able to get along for a while with no conversions, but there will come a time when the advertisers demand conversions or no money - unless of course they start out that way, which some do, commission only.

Re: [asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ?

2008-05-30 Thread Mohammed Lambat
The Skype model has created a lot of stir in the Telecoms market since its launch and until its demise in to the black hole of Ebay. For one, it has proved that calls over the Internet work and people are willing to use it; however, this model has also proved that giving something away for nothing

[asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ?

2008-05-29 Thread Justin Case
Anyone know how Skype is pulling this off ? http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/subscriptions/rowcountry/?country=US Their fair usage is 10k minutes. If I used Chanskype and blocked the CID anyone can make a mint. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ?

2008-05-29 Thread Nitzan Kon
: [asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ? To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008, 5:23 PM Anyone know how Skype is pulling this off ? http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/subscriptions/rowcountry/?country=US Their fair

Re: [asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ?

2008-05-29 Thread SIP
in the future, etc. Otherwise, it's not possible. If it's too good to be true- it isn't. -- Nitzan --- On Thu, 5/29/08, Justin Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Justin Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ? To: Commercial and Business-Oriented

Re: [asterisk-biz] How is Skype pulling this off ?

2008-05-29 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:31 -0700, Nitzan Kon wrote: They're assuming the average usage will be more like 500 minutes. If you really used 1 minutes (or even close to that), I bet they'll boot you off their network faster than you can say Skype. They say it's for personal usage only which