[asterisk-biz] Profitable Wholesale Carriers?

[Matt]

Some probably resell other carrier's services.     I honestly have
wondered this myself.     As for us (chilitech.net) we have been
involved in the Internet business since 2001.   We have a large group
of broadband and dial-up customers as well as web hosting customers,
so the VoIP is only part of our business and is profitable.

On 7/30/07, Douglas Garstang <DGarstang at interainc.com> wrote:
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> I see a lot of wholesale and business SIP origination and termination
> carriers on the voip-info web site at:
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> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/VOIP+Service+Providers+Business+North+America
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> The list seems to be growing daily. Do people actually make money doing
> this? I would have thought that the profit margins on carrying minutes would
> have been measured in fractions of a cent. I'm a little curious how people
> cut a profit unless they are passing millions of minutes per month. If they
> are, I wonder how they get business when there are so many out there doing
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> Do these companies just resell other people's networks, like Level 3? Do
> they build their own term/orig POP's in datacenters around the world and use
> the public Internet to route calls, or do they build private networks? Both
> must be expensive. Once again, I'm curious how they can cut a profit???
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> Doug.
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