[Asterisk-Dev] MeetMe Improvement

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, dking at pimpsoft.com wrote:

> One person can connect the internet to there local phone system.
> A group of like minded individuals could create there own phone 
> system attached to the worldwide POTS system.
> This system could be used for local calls if the local community was 
> large enough in one area.
> If this group was large enough then both long distance and local 
> telephone bills would end for the entire world.
> This group of people exists yet has not been tapped into yet.
> This would hurt the phone companies revenue exceptionally depending 
> on the number of people involved.
> This  in turn would drive down the costs to the consumer.
> 
> SO.. Whats to stop people from giving asterisk as the opensource gpl 
> product it is this functionality?

Quality, reliability.. businesses spend a lot more than residentials, businesses 
will not tolerate anything but the best service. Therefore this idea will only 
ever fulfil a service to a limited marketplace.
 
Steve

>  - Belgarath
> On 5 Jul 2004 at 11:11, dorian logan wrote:
> 
> > One additional item that I would like to see is 
> > integrate some streaming bridges e.g. allow conferences to be attended 
> > by people via a stream rather than a phone or SIP connection. I know 
> > the Ices project is working on this too.
> > 
> > Asterisk is well positioned to demonstrate what can be done when 
> > Internet and telephony are seamlessly integrated.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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