[Asterisk-biz] VoIP Future and Asterisk -- For Teliax, LiveVOIP, NuFone, VoipJet, BroadVoice and all other IXPs

[Caleb]

This is an excellent idea! I would like to know if anybody wants to
take it further or has ideas built on this, count me in. :)

Cheers

On 6/21/05, Kenneth Shaw <ken at expitrans.com> wrote:
> For all Inter-exchange carriers using Asterisk,
> 
> Someone posted recently on the list about doing something to combat
> credit card fraud that the IXPs are encountering right now. I have a
> suggestion -- unity.
> 
> You would greatly benefit not only yourselves, but the community at
> large by building what we really need: a decentralized, uniform,
> peer-to-peer, secure voice relay system.
> 
> All of you need the same things right now: secure, fraud resistant
> payment systems, an easy to use configuration interface, least cost
> routing, and the acquisition of cheaper, route ratings, and better
> termination/origination lines in foreign countries. In essence, you need
> to pool your resources and become what you are destined to be: a minute
> exchange.
> 
> Your competition is Skype, Vonage, VoicePulse, CallVantage, CallWing,
> etc. -- not each other. I really want to see Asterisk grow as a
> communications platform, and that will not happen if the small
> commercial enterprises that support it die because they cannot compete
> on the same scale that the big dogs do.
> 
> Jeremy, David, Mike, Mark, and all the others, band together. All of you
> currently resell the same companies, and use the same software:
> Asterisk. I assure you that Vonage will be bought up by one of the
> failed VoIP arms of the AT&Ts, Verizons and Cingulars of the world, but
> only after Vonage buys out VoicePulse. And if you think the industry is
> too competitive now, just wait until Netscape, er, I mean Google,
> launches their Communicator product in early 2007, and Microsoft and
> Yahoo start offering similar services.
> 
> Realize that Vonage, Mr. Pulver's gig, started out as a concept for a
> telecom minute auction. A minute exchange! But back then, the technology
> wasn't available (or was too expensive) to pull it off, and so was a
> failed business concept.
> 
> Become the NYSE of telecom, and make it open so that any company or
> individual can directly buy or sell minutes on your network. That's what
> people, consumers and businesses, really want.
> 
> --
> Kenneth Shaw
> Director of Technology
> ExpiTrans, Inc.
> 2428 Newport Blvd #8
> Costa Mesa, CA 92627
> tel: 949 278 7288
> fax: 866 494 5043
> ken at expitrans.com
> 
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