[asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

[Gordon Henderson]

On Wed, 16 May 2007, Stephen Bosch wrote:

> Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
>>
>>> The only thing I'd probably lose is the ability to do faxes! So I am
>>> going
>>> to investigate that further first!
>>>
>> Havn't doen that in years - an online fax service sends me my faxes by
>> email and I sent out faxes through them, not that I ever do that.
>
> The fax-to-e-mail services charge as much as the telco does for a
> business line, sometimes more (at least, the ones I can deal with in
> this area). Better to set-up hylafax, IMHO.

!!!

They can be had for free (or sometimes a one-off setup fee, usually less 
than a tenner) in the UK. The numbers assigned, while not premium numbers 
are charged to the caller at "local" or "national" rates, and there is a 
tiny kick-back to the provider from the fees which covers running costs, 
depending on the number assigned (ie. 0845 or 0870 - but there's a big 
resistance to 0870 numbers in the UK - see www.saynoto0870.co.uk)

You can pay more for fancy numbers - eg. ones that map to names on the 
dial-pad.

Gordon