[asterisk-biz] Conference Services

[Jon Weisman]

Michael,

I think there used to be or still is a company called freeconferencecall.com 
or something of that nature. They did this for a while and I understand got 
the crap sued out of them. Not really sure what happened but I know the big 
guys AT&T & Qwest went after them and claimed that they were committing 
fraud. I wish I remembered more, but for me breakfast is blur! (did i even 
have breakfast today???? doh!)

-Jon



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Trank" <mike at bptweb.com>
To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" 
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Conference Services


>
> I think the money is made by locating the free conference services in
> the networks of some
> of the small rural telephone companies and cooperatives that are able to
> charge the big carriers
> on the order of several cents per minute for terminating calls to
> numbers in their space.
>
> These small carriers have termination fees that have been grandfathered
> in from old FCC rules.
>
>
> Steve Totaro wrote:
>
>>I wonder how anyone can make a buck in this space, there are several
>>companies that do no adverts and do not charge a dime, plus they even
>>do recording.
>>
>>http://www.freeconferencecall.com/faq.asp is one.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Steve Totaro
>>
>>On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Al Lougher <alougher at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Dave -
>>>
>>>I'm intrigued to know how your advertising covers the costs of the calls. 
>>>We
>>>offer free messaging with advertising, but the ads barely cover the cost 
>>>of
>>>a one minute call. How do you make any money on say a 30 minute 
>>>conference
>>>call with a handful of connected parties?
>>>
>>>Alan
>>>www.group2call.com
>>>
>>>--- On Mon, 8/18/08, | dave cantera | <david.cantera at iacnet.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>From: | dave cantera | <david.cantera at iacnet.net>
>>>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Conference Services
>>>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
>>><asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>>>Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 12:46 AM
>>>
>>>jon,
>>>I offer a free conference calling service, I decide what the number 
>>>inbound
>>>is and I play my advertisement on the inbound calls.  then I give them a
>>>conference code and a conference PIN.
>>>if they want a custom or local DID, then they pay for that plus a minute
>>>charge of $0.03 per inbound leg.  advertisement on the inbound calls if I
>>>can get it.
>>>daveC
>>>
>>>Jon Weisman wrote:
>>>
>>>Anybody here using Asterisk to host a conferencing service? I'm curious 
>>>as
>>>to the business details of the whole thing. How are you guys charging
>>>monthly? per minute, both? What sort of features are "industry 
>>>standards"?
>>>What are the permium features? Bells & whistles?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Jon
>>>
>>>
>>>
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