[asterisk-biz] Asterisk and OpenSer support in Spain

Trixter aka Bret McDanel trixter at 0xdecafbad.com
Mon Sep 22 09:38:46 CDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 08:20 -0600, Ignacio Ramos wrote:
> Hello ppl, our company Codevoz with presence in Central America is
> analyzing the opportunity of open operations in Spain. One of our
> engineers is moving to Barcelona and we would like to know if theres
> is potential oportunity there for:


probably although isnt their economy tanking about now?  And hasnt it
been for a while?  Does that not mean income would be a little harder to
come by (businesses generally derive income from customers, who get
income from other businesses, who ...  you see where I am going). 

You may want to look into what some are reporting as the southern half
of the eurozone going into the toilet economically, countries by name I
have heard mentioned (but havent investigated personally) are portugal,
spain, italy and greece.  I dont know what their current state is, this
was about 2 months ago or so (the last ECB meeting discussing rates).  I
know that Barcelona had a fuel shortage, 40% or so of the gas stations
couldnt afford to buy any new fuel, which of course caused trucks to
refuse to deliver there for fear of not being able to refuel to get out,
some panic buying on food, and a big grinding halt on the local economy
because there were no products to sell, that however may have corrected
itself completely by now, it too was 2 or so months ago.

Generally when the economy starts going down the only thing you can sell
is a way to save money, which certainly some of what you listed could
provide that but the up front costs also have to be inline with what is
available.  

With that said Barcelona is a fairly large city, and there are some
businesses that are probably not suffering at all, especially
international ones who do not rely on the local economy to make a
profit, the key is knowing who can afford whatever it is that you want
to sell, how much they would be willing to pay, and market to them
specifically.
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