[asterisk-biz] Amp'd Going the Way of Sun Rocket

[Alex Pilosov]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:

> 	There is no way I'd ever let you near my "Commercial and
> Business-Oriented Asterisk" activity, which is the *only* legitimate
> subject of this mailing list. Not only are you laughably wrong about
> VoIP, you are a troll. There's no way you could convince me that you're
> anywhere near competent enough to trust my "business communications" to.
Funny, but I agree with this guy. 

There is no savings with VoIP. None. Call termination costs money.  
Switching calls costs money. Converged network costs money to run, same as
TDM network.  Converged network with proper QoS may cost *more* money to
run vs same TDM network.

Vonage (and sunrocket, etc, consumer voip) business model is based on 
a) losing money on every customer but making it up in volume 
b) having customers accept subpar call quality (because of no guarantees 
of internet-wide QoS) in exchange for lower fee.

The retail consumer voip model does not work. I've said this 4 years ago,
when vonage first came out, and it is coming true now.

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