[Asterisk-Users] Kind of off-topic: VoIP services and multipl e callers

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On December 6, 2004 07:01 pm, Colin Anderson wrote:
> You would need 1 broadband connection, and technically, you would need only
> 1 ACCOUNT (I think that's the word you are looking for) but any VoIP
> provider that doesn't want to go out of business right away would enforce
> account limits so only 1 account could be in use at any one point in time.

Uh... why?  You have minutes used -- what does it matter if you use them 1 at 
a time or 50 at a time?  Seriously?  What is your rationale between limiting 
concurrent calls and being able to stay alive in the VOIP industry?  It makes 
no sense.

> Otherwise, you could make an account and have 1000 people making calls at
> the same time. Think of it in terms of software licensing: With a VoIP
> account, you have a "license" to use their service, 1 user at a time making
> 1 call at a time. In the software world, this is called concurrent
> licensing.

What's the problem with this?  If you're being billed by the minute every 
minute every instance is using -- so your 1000 simultaneous calls would be 
using 1000 minutes.  Seems profitable to me.

I'd not use a VOIP provider that has assinine limits per account.  Nufone's 
quite happy to charge me the same per-minute per call irrespective of how 
many I'm using at once, and I'm quite happy to give Nufone my business for 
not imposing stupid limits on me.

-A.