Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread John Todd
At 10:43 PM -0400 on 7/24/05, Robert M. Enger wrote: I've seen cellular service agreements that discuss "all more almost all usage originating from a single cell site". Apparently, they discourage using fixed-location cell adapters to jack-in to the cellular network. I suppose one could use d

Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread Robert M. Enger
I've seen cellular service agreements that discuss "all more almost all usage originating from a single cell site". Apparently, they discourage using fixed-location cell adapters to jack-in to the cellular network. I suppose one could use directional antennas on the roof, and target two or mo

Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread Roy
Here is once such vendor of cellular-PSTN gateways, http://www.mobilecomms-technology.com/contractors/gsm/eurotech1/

Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread Joe Abley
On 24 Jul 2005, at 19:21, John Levine wrote: North America is all mobile party pays, so calls to mobile cost the same as calls to landline. ... not inside the [same provider's] mobile network, cell phone to cell phone. See T-Mobile's "Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile" component of their service

Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread jkreger
I've heard rumors that some cell providers have a solution for corperate campus enviroments... essentially where there is a private cell site or something along those lines. I think cingular has a product along those lines. Can anybody confirm? I've only heard this as we drecently re-did o

Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread jkreger
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Jon Lewis wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, John Levine wrote: ... not inside the [same provider's] mobile network, cell phone to cell phone. See T-Mobile's "Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile" component of their services, as an example. This (unlimited, for a flat, usually minuscule,

Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread Jon Lewis
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, John Levine wrote: ... not inside the [same provider's] mobile network, cell phone to cell phone. See T-Mobile's "Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile" component of their services, as an example. This (unlimited, for a flat, usually minuscule, fee) is what I am hoping to achieve with

Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread John Levine
>> North America is all mobile party pays, >> so calls to mobile cost the same as calls to landline. >... not inside the [same provider's] mobile network, cell phone to >cell phone. See T-Mobile's "Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile" component of >their services, as an example. This (unlimited, for a

Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread Network Fortius
On Jul 24, 2005, at 3:35 PM, John Levine wrote: North America is all mobile party pays, so calls to mobile cost the same as calls to landline. ... not inside the [same provider's] mobile network, cell phone to cell phone. See T-Mobile's "Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile" component of their

Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread John Levine
>$subj says it pretty much all :) Does anybody use anything like this >in the US? I doubt it. Europe is all calling party pays, so if you can sneak your calls into the cell network and avoid the termination fees, you can save vast amounts of money. North America is all mobile party pays, so c

Re: 911, was You're all over thinking this (was: Re: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service)

2005-07-24 Thread John Levine
>> world-wide, so that if you're an American in Europe, you can still >> call 911 and have that work as expected. > >Given that there are UK telephone numbers starting 911, this seems >rather unlikely. Given that we're talking about cell phones, it seems completely likely. Cell phones present th

GSM gateways in the US?!?

2005-07-24 Thread Network Fortius
$subj says it pretty much all :) Does anybody use anything like this in the US? The $1 mil/yr costs of our cellular telephony consists, almost exclusively, of calls made from cell phones, back into the company's various sites PBXs. I have seen such things advertised in Europe, with the ex