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

[John Galt]

I'm in California, USA

PUC, hasn't been much help and I'm rather new/green at this.

-Galt

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:30:56 +0300, Peter Nixon <listuser at peternixon.net> wrote:
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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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> Peter Nixon
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