[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk newbie questions

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

Ooops sorry I didn't realize I wasn't posting off-list :-)

>I would say "au contraire". If you are going to set up shop in Reunion
>and the rates to there are expensive, that may well be an opportunity
>for you to terminate yourself and sell the capacity overseas.
>

Hey I don't want to 'terminate myself' yet, life is too good :-)

Bad jokes aside,  you reckon there's any money doing PSTN termination on
an island that has 800,000 people on it?

Has anybody got some numbers that would allow me to guesstimate how many
hours per day I'll be likely to process (medium / long term) and what
kind of bandwith I would need?


>It is
>the rates the local telco charges you terminating locally that matter.
>If those rates are significantly lower than overseas VoIP rates to
>Reunion, that's your potential margin.
>  
>
For local calls France Telecom charges about 3.3 eurocents / minute I 
think. VoIP ones are about 20 eurocents / minute I think - which is also
FT's rate. So yes it's significant. I wonder if there would be enough 
volume though.


>Internet access and especially bandwidth will probably be another cost
>factor to watch as it is probably satellite based.
>  
>
No it isn't - Réunion is hooked on the 'Safe' cable which links Asia to
Europe. Ping is still pretty high =~ 250 ms to europe on broadband but
it isn't as bad as if it was going through satellite.


Cheers,
Jean-Michel.