[Asterisk-biz] Fwd: [Asterisk-Users] When does the PUC become an issue?

[Peter Nixon]

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Hi John

That all depends on what country you are in. Where are you? Here in Turkey to 
sell calling cards you need to be a licensed telco which has the following 
fees:

50,000 Euro Government License
250,000 Euro Letter of Credit to the government
500,000 Euro Letter of Credit to Turkish Telekom
6,000 Euro connection fee per E1 x 8 cities (Minimum)
10,000 Euro for C7 (SS7) interconnection x 2
300 Euro monthly fee per DID (This is NOT a typo!)
0.05 Euro interconnection fee per minute on all calls
+ 18% KDV (VAT)
+ 25% Special communications tax

You can see from this that you need close to 1 million Euro just for license 
and interconnection fees before buying any equipment. Given the cost of 
C7/SS7 equipment and the requirement for 8 locations you need another 
250K-500K worth of equipment just for basic operation..

I hope whichever country you are in is not quite so expensive ;-)

Cheers from Istanbul

Peter

On Friday 16 July 2004 18:22, John Galt wrote:
> I inquired on the users list and was directed here.  please see thread
> below.
>
> -Galt
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Justin B. Newman <justin.newman at binhost.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:28:00 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] When does the PUC become an issue?
> To: John Galt <galt.john at gmail.com>
>
> John,
>
> In as much as there is an appropriate "*" place to discuss this, it
> would be on the asterisk-biz mailing list, accessible from the digium
> web page.
>
> Since it's not an *-specific question, -biz may or may not want to talk
> about it, but they'll come closer than -users.
>
> -jbn
>
> On Jul 16, 2004, at 7:09 AM, John Galt wrote:
> > If there would be a better place to ask this please let me know.
> >
> > I'd like to set up an * box and sell calling cards and long distance.
> > At what point am I an internet applications provider and at what point
> > am I a telco.  Where can I find where the line is drawn?
> >
> > -Galt


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