[Asterisk-Users] Free WWT (WorldWideTelco): Utopia, or just a matter of organization?

[m80246 at comcast.net]

hi marconi my name is Mo and i like that adea of everybody conecting their asterisk to the local phones but can you explain me more how to do that.
regards
Mo

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> I had this idea, and after looking for something like this already in 
> progress, I found another guy who tried to start it... But I was 
> unable to contact him, and his project seems to be dead. But, I 
> believe it is possible, and I wanted to know the opinion of the 
> experienced... So, let's go: 
> 
> I got an asterisk server setup to receive free calls from US to 
> Brazil. The problem is that at my work, the Internet connection is 
> really good, so I can talk to US, and receive calls from US (through 
> StanaPhone, and IPKall) without any problems. But, at my home, there's 
> no broadband. So, I bought an FXO card, put it at my PC at work, and 
> whenever it gets a call to me, it dials my home number. So I can talk 
> to US for a local call cost, with sound quality better than the real 
> phone call from US (I already did, and it's really better through 
> voip). 
> 
> I was thinking: we could build an Asterisk network, maybe go even 
> further and make it P2P like skype (but I believe it's not necessary 
> at the beginning), and every user would share it's phone line, and be 
> able to place calls to PSTN through the other users' phone lines. So, 
> I let Japanese people call my neighbours for free, and an Italian guy 
> may let me use his phone, so he can use the Indian guy's phone... 
> 
> In US, local calls are free. So it wouldn't be a problem to make such 
> a network to get rid of long distance calls. But in other countries 
> (like here in Brazil) local calls are charged. So there could be some 
> king of billing (without commercial purposes, just to pay for the 
> costs), or something... 
> 
> Asterisk is really powerful, and I believe that at least for a small 
> initial test, it wouldn't require anything else. 
> 
> So, any thoughts on this? Critics, suggestions, ideas... 
> 
> Marconi. 
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