[asterisk-biz] DID in France redirected to UK cellphoneon T-Mobile?

[randulo]

Hi Sam,

I'm trying to understand what you're saying because it may be of
interest in the future to solve other problems, but I don't think it's
the solution my friend is seeking. Yes, cellphone calling in Europe is
weird (signaling especially) but remember that received calls are free
to cell owner. Signaling is so screwed up that when this person calls
me on his cell, it keeps ringing for him and I anwser and can him
while he hears ringing! I wonder what the signaling would be like on a
GSM gateway?

The person who asked about this is an individual with very modest call
volume, maybe approaching zero calls per month sometimes.  I think his
need, and I should have said this before - mea culpa - is for a low
monthly rate and a reasonable UK cell rate like 0.16- 0.18 euro cents.
QoS is something that would need to be tested, too, but at his end it
has nothing to do with an internet connection.

On Jan 12, 2008 9:31 PM, Sam Tam <samtam888 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2. Just get a French DID and then have them forward to your UK Mobile (cost
> like .10 USD + a min)

That does appear to be his best option and that's what I was looking
for, although the cost is higher, closer to $0.25 or more.
Also we'd assume that the quality of such calls would be better from a
provider on the French PSTN network, unless I'm missing something.

> 3. Get a GSM VoIP Gateway and then register the French DID into the gateway
> and set a forwarding to a UK mobile phone and of course you need another GSM
> Sim card.

I don't understand this one at all. Who would pay for forwarded calls
and how much would they be? Isn't that going to be prohibitive? Maybe
the forwarding is done at an honest rate? No idea.

> 5. Of course divert the call from the DID to a UK landline that way it is
> far far more cheaper than mobile.

I agree, that's what I'd do, but he wants to use his new N95. I'm not
a big cell fan;, personally.

I am interested though in what the gateway solution you invoke can
bring to say a small business. Can you give a scenario with costs,
still for fairly low volume? For example, how could my two-person
company benefit from this? Maybe when we are on the road, it could
improve our mobility?

Thx,

r