[Asterisk-biz] Building a business using IAX?

[Thomas Christie]

Exactly -- you can sell calling cards or something similar to those who live
here and have family abroad.

There's another great reason to do this, though.  It involves US companies
that have sales sites abroad.  It is the same basic principle as below --
instead of paying X + Y for minutes, you start only paying X for minutes.

And in many (many) cases, dialing abroad-to-abroad is more expensive than
the combined cost of US-to-abroad1 and US-to-abroad2.  About three or so
years ago, this was true of France to Germany.  Our company saved money by
having our people in France trigger a call to themselves on the Internet,
then use our service to call Germany.  The two calls were much cheaper (like
$.40 a minute cheaper -- no joke) than the one call France-to-Germany.  This
may, of course, no longer be true of the phone services in Europe; but it
most certainly still is true in South America and other places.


Thomas Christie

There are 10 types of people in the world:  those who understand binary and
those who don't.


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Michel
Hiver
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:53
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Building a business using IAX?

Jeff Grammer wrote:

> I see a lot of posts on this list asking for termination in other 
> countries.  What is the business model that this works under?

One of the oldest business model in the world: commerce. You buy minutes for
X, you sell them for X + Y. The tricky part is having the right connections
to buy cheap.
 
IAX2 isn't very widespread though. H.323 and SIP are much more popular.

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