[asterisk-biz] Conference Services

[Jon Weisman]

ahhh its all coming back to me... I need more vitamins.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Collins" <Dean at cognation.net>
To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" 
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Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Conference Services


> Jon,
>
> They didn't get sued, the carriers tried to withhold payments, got
> overturned and the carriers went back to having to pay money to the B
> party.
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dean
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jon Weisman
> Sent: Monday, 18 August 2008 12:17 PM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Conference Services
>
> Michael,
>
> I think there used to be or still is a company called
> freeconferencecall.com
> or something of that nature. They did this for a while and I understand
> got
> the crap sued out of them. Not really sure what happened but I know the
> big
> guys AT&T & Qwest went after them and claimed that they were committing
> fraud. I wish I remembered more, but for me breakfast is blur! (did i
> even
> have breakfast today???? doh!)
>
> -Jon
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Trank" <mike at bptweb.com>
> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
> <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 1:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Conference Services
>
>
>>
>> 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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