[Asterisk-Users] e164.org proudly announces PSTN support

[Duane]

John Todd wrote:

Ok missed a few points...

Initially I see this being a majority business to business and consumer 
to business service rather then end user to end user. There is 
potentially a lot of (on an end user level) personal information stored 
on individuals, however businesses generally want to be found and other 
businesses and consumers that are empowered to call companies directly 
over already paid for leased lines, dsl connections and the like have 
the potential themselves and other companies money on 1800 numbers and 
the like and per minute rates or even just a local call cost that we are 
charged here in Australia...

>   My hope is that the ENUM authorities (typically the PTT's or 
> government telephony regulatory agencies) in each nation will make 
> something for adding entries into their respective national ENUM 
> databases that is as easy as the e164.org entry process.  However, 
> knowing the political strife that so often accompanies things like this 
> I doubt that will be anytime soon, so maybe e164.org sounds like a good 
> idea for a while.

With incumbent telcos that hold ill-gotten government monopolies in 
countries such as Australia (I won't mention any names but it doesn't 
take a brain surgeon to know the answer to this one) who have everything 
to loose due to enum.164's ability to route calls directly from PABX to 
PABX over the internet, I highly doubt some countries will get anything 
easy to use. So when you want something done right you have to do it 
yourself :)

I doubt calls will ever be totally free, you still need some 
connectivity somewhere, but the current prices of 25c/minute for calls 
made long distance during 7am to 7pm in Australia is a joke beyond all 
jokes... To add insult to injury they whack on a 33c connection fee for 
good measure...

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Best regards,
  Duane

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