[asterisk-biz] wholesale VoIP providers using Asterisk

[Alex Balashov]

On 05/04/2011 02:38 PM, Alex Balashov wrote:

> On 05/04/2011 02:34 PM, mark at leetop.net wrote:
>
>> What happened? Has the wholesale termination market dried up because
>> it's gone mainstream? Or is Asterisk dying out as a LCR platform? Is
>> anyone still making money terminating calls?
>
> Asterisk was never a particularly good LCR platform; the performance
> just isn't there, especially given some developments in the race to the
> bottom, which often require rapid serial forking through 15 vendors
> before finding one that will actually terminate the call.
>
> Nobody's making money terminating calls in wholesale, except in
> supremely large volumes. There are still some retail opportunities, and
> some niche wholesale markets. That's about it.

I should say:  nobody's making money in domestic wholesale termination.

There are probably still plenty of opportunities (and risk) in 
international, especially in places where VoIP "toll bypass" is still 
some kind of novelty.

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