[asterisk-biz] Conference Services

[Michael Trank]

I think the money is made by locating the free conference services in 
the networks of some
of the small rural telephone companies and cooperatives that are able to 
charge the big carriers
on the order of several cents per minute for terminating calls to 
numbers in their space.

These small carriers have termination fees that have been grandfathered 
in from old FCC rules.


Steve Totaro wrote:

>I wonder how anyone can make a buck in this space, there are several
>companies that do no adverts and do not charge a dime, plus they even
>do recording.
>
>http://www.freeconferencecall.com/faq.asp is one.
>
>Thanks,
>Steve Totaro
>
>On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Al Lougher <alougher at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Dave -
>>
>>I'm intrigued to know how your advertising covers the costs of the calls. We
>>offer free messaging with advertising, but the ads barely cover the cost of
>>a one minute call. How do you make any money on say a 30 minute conference
>>call with a handful of connected parties?
>>
>>Alan
>>www.group2call.com
>>
>>--- On Mon, 8/18/08, | dave cantera | <david.cantera at iacnet.net> wrote:
>>
>>From: | dave cantera | <david.cantera at iacnet.net>
>>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Conference Services
>>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
>><asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>>Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 12:46 AM
>>
>>jon,
>>I offer a free conference calling service, I decide what the number inbound
>>is and I play my advertisement on the inbound calls.  then I give them a
>>conference code and a conference PIN.
>>if they want a custom or local DID, then they pay for that plus a minute
>>charge of $0.03 per inbound leg.  advertisement on the inbound calls if I
>>can get it.
>>daveC
>>
>>Jon Weisman wrote:
>>
>>Anybody here using Asterisk to host a conferencing service? I'm curious as
>>to the business details of the whole thing. How are you guys charging
>>monthly? per minute, both? What sort of features are "industry standards"?
>>What are the permium features? Bells & whistles?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jon
>>
>>    
>>
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