[Asterisk-Users] asterisk in india

[Steve Totaro]

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From: "usedcanon" <usedcanon at yahoo.co.uk>
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Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 6:18 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk in india


> I am a fan of Mohammad Rafi, so could do with some calls from India ;-)
>
> Umar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Kanuri, Seshu
> Sent: 13 August 2004 21:14
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk in india
>
>
> There is one more twist to this. The broadband connection in India really
> sucks as it carries heavy load of Hindi Films and Hindi Film Songs.
>
> We have a few Broadband connections running from India. When the call
comes
> from India to USA, the VOIP Broadband Phone turns into a Juke Box and all
> that our users in US can listen to is the Voice Overs of melodies of Lata
> Mangeshkar, Manna Dey and Mohammed Rafi. The VOIP Voice is critically low.
>
> Another factor is that the noise eliminates any real use of advanced
codecs
> like G729. The Internet bandwidth is so expensive to run from India, there
> is no real use of hosting your Asterisk box there, Vis-a-Vis the same in
> USA.
>
> And offcourse you cannot legally interconnect VOIP with Analog or Digital
> PRI lines there.

so how does dell do it?