[asterisk-biz] European voip provider..

[Mike Fedyk]

How does this work for them?

Specifically, how do they get free calls to the USA?  Most companies 
here like to charge per minute fees, so I'm wondering how they avoid 
that and other problems involved with offering all of those services for 
a low fee like that.

Philippe Coupe wrote:

>If you are in France, take a dsl line with free.fr and you'll have free
>(voip) phone calls to 10 countries including France, USA and even China...
>In addition you 'll got 200+ tv channel free and up to 24megs of internet
>connection (depending on your phone line quality)...
>All that costing 29.99 euros per month...
>In addition this ISP bought a WIMAX licence and is preparing to bundle a
>mobile VOIP offer with their existing offering...
>With this kind of competition (a la "all you can eat discounted buffer") its
>very hard (if not impossible) to find a "pure" voip provider in France ...
>
>Regards
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
>[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Christopher
>Bergström
>Sent: lundi 9 janvier 2006 22:28
>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>Subject: [asterisk-biz] European voip provider..
>
>I'm looking for a provider that can do the following.. I'll be upfront about
>two things..
>
>1) I will almost certainly never need any service unless there's an issue..
>(In which case refer to 2)
>2) This won't be used for critical communication and or on high volume so
>the chances of being an issue are low..
>
>Total monthly usage will be in the 20-50$+ a month range
>
>I'm doing a lot of business in europe and need a personal account so I can
>call some friends and family in the US and if possible good rates to fixed
>lines in western europe..
>
>a) transports the call over pstn from europe to the US.. (other routes I
>really don't care so much about.)
>b) supports gsm, g729a, and g711u (rarely will be used.)
>c) average latency of under 100ms for most of europe
>d) sip proxy so I can get past being double nated at times (I have a sip
>proxy pop in UK if this is an issue, but prefer it all in one place.)
>e) prepay
>
>Other things I will take into consideration..
>a) web interface for configuring backup route in automated way if I'm
>offline
>b) quality.. (Doesn't need to be defined so carefully, but you know it when
>you hear it)
>c) no setup fees
>d) test account I can do an echo test with or something
>e) allow payment via PayPal
>
>(Support doesn't have to speak english either.. German, Swedish, Spanish..
>Italian.. or even Estii keel for all I care ;)
>
>Thanks a lot in advance!
>
>C.
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