[asterisk-users] GSM / 3g channel bank

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Steve Kennedy wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:53:41PM +0100, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:
>
> > More than 60% of our outbound calls are now to mobiles, so the time has
> > come to whack in a gsm channel bank.
> > Does anyone have any preference of bank ? Do you use a PRI or VOIP
> > connection from the bank to asterisk ? Real-world experiences are sooooo
> > much better than marketing blurb ;)
> > We currently have  a TE412P with a free socket, so we have a choice
> > either way. I am looking for up to 30 sims to be connected, and we are
> > based in the UK.
> > Any advice is gratefully received.
>
> Are you providing any kind of service to 3rd parties? If so you are NOT
> allowed to run a GSM gateway.
>
> If it's purely your own traffic i.e. say company PBX to mobile traffic
> then it is allowed.
>
> Ofcom ruled on this a while back.
>
> Saying that I've used a Portech GSM gateway on SIP and it works well.
>

Does anyone know if this is true in the States?  I run a prepaid card
service, and never thought about trying to use SIM cards for termination
:)

j