[Asterisk-Users] Don't go with vendor lock-in or other traps

[Jerry Glomph Black]

Not seen unlimited flatrate? You are not looking very hard.

Umm, you are ignoring Broadvoice, which has no crappy bonding to their hardware, 
or bogus soft-phone ripoff.  Broadvoice has unlimited plans that work with 
Asterisk.  I have it, it works great.


Digium rules, and DOES deserve everybody's support.

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Wolf Paul wrote:

> Greg Hill <gregh-asterisk at hillnet.us> wrote:
>
>> You probably mentioned this before.. but why Vonage? Since you're using
>> the PSTN for receiving calls and VOIP for placing calls, why not go with
>> another, more enlightened, vendor? Everybody offers US domestic long
>> distance cheap as dirt, and most other vendors' plans are less expensive
>> than Vonage's anyway. The main advantage here is that you get to work with
>> a vendor who will provide you with SIP (or IAX, or something else)
>> credentials to make your * box talk directly to them.
>> 
> I have not seen another UNLIMITED FLATRATE offer. That alone, if I expect to 
> make many long calls,
> would make me go with Vonage, even if I have to go out through the ATA. Of 
> course that leave one with the problem that you cannot make multiple 
> simultaneous calls that way (but that is probably the intention, and why 
> their softphone account is not available with unlimited calls.