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

[Matthew Rubenstein]

	I pay less every month for my consumer VoIP service than I ever did, or
would now, for my call traffic. And that's not even counting foreign
calls, including ones to Europe and South Asia. Since it's flat rate, I
talk much longer internationally, even leaving the line open for long
business sessions.


On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:39 -0400, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Alex Pilosov    | DSL, Colocation, Hosting Services
> President       | alex at pilosoft.com    877-PILOSOFT x601
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> 
> 
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(C) Matthew Rubenstein