[Asterisk-biz] TDM <-> VOIP <-> TDM is illegal! Who knew!?! and what should we do?

[JD Austin]

Can't you just give an 800 number?
I'd imagine a million companies are breaking the law with their pbx by 
your interpretation.
There has to be an easy end run around this.. like PSTN -> Asterisk -> 
another asterisk machine -> VOIP -> PSTN ?
I can see them coming down hard on AT&T since they've already been split 
up for monopoly issues, not sure they'd do the same with mom and pop 
voip providers.




Jess Coburn wrote:

>So I'm looking to setup a callback service that would go pots phone to
>asterisk box to pots phone. The problem I found out is that since it's
>TDM on both end's it's considered a regular call and thus the
>government wants to get paid.
>
>You can read the FCC's decision on AT&T's petition at:
>http://www.fcc.gov/voip/ for more info on this one.
>
>So, okay now we have to get all registered and certified by the
>government and the state we operate in, which is fine.  Now I can make
>international long distance calls as this and inter-state calls like
>this.  But then they say 'oh you want to make intra-state long
>distance calls too? Well here's a whole new set of rings we need you
>to jump through now!'
>
>So now it seems you have to register as a IXC within each state you
>want to make intra-state calls in and you have to have a corporation
>in that state as well. So the fees and paperwork and headaches for all
>this just went through the roof on this one.
>
>That means if i want to offer a nationwide call-back service going
>pots to asterisk to pots then I have to incorporate in 50 states, get
>registered and certified in all 50 states and ofcourse also do the
>FCC's loop jumping too.
>
>So I see a ton of guys offering calling cards on their asterisk box
>which I think means all these calling card guys are running ILLEGAL if
>they are going pots to asterisk to pots but there's got to be a way
>around this without having to incorporate in 50 states, so what's
>everyone doing besides possibly breaking the law.
>
>Jess
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