[asterisk-biz] calling card business

[Wes Reece]

I guess the industry is morphing into SIM and other pre-paid type services.

Alex I have to agree with you; I always see ethnic stores filled with phone
cards. It does seem like there's a lot of competition maybe too much trouble
than its worth as the US is saturated.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Wes Reece <wreece79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't mind when they ask I'm always happy to help. But I let them know up
> front that they are going to get no where near what they paid for it.
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:23 AM, David Knell <dave at 3c.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> It's not dead; it's merely changed.
>>
>> Last time I bought a TDM switch, I paid about US$150,000 for 64E1s - so
>> it'd switch about 1000 calls.  Several years later, we run that traffic
>> volume and more through two commodity Dell servers which, with
>> bandwidth, cost us about $250/month.  And it takes a few hours to hook
>> up to a new carrier, rather than weeks or months in the TDM world.  So
>> it's no wonder that there's a lot of TDM equipment coming onto the
>> market; IP is too compelling.
>>
>> There is also a lot of activity around cellphones - for example, a
>> couple of the UK calling card companies have launched MVNOs with an
>> emphasis on cheap international calling (such as Lycatel with
>> Lycamobile), selling SIMs through their existing distribution, and
>> existing carriers are starting to offer cheap international calling
>> packages, both to postpaid and prepaid customers.
>>
>> Question back at you - what do you say when someone asks if you can sell
>> their TDM switch?
>>
>> --Dave
>>
>> > is it dead? i have many people e-mailing me asking if I can sell their
>> > switches (NACT, DTI, Excel) I also know from last year the intelecard
>> > show was a bust...so what do you guys think? are we all just heading
>> > to mobile phones and unified communications? what about the people
>> > that have credit issues? prepaid cell phones?
>> >
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>> >
>> > -Wes-
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