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

[Greg Hill]

Hmm, something must've gone wrong with the quoting below.... I didn't
write that which was attributed to me here!

Greg


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Jerry Glomph Black wrote:

> 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.
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