[Asterisk-Users] Demo phones with advertisement announcements

[Craig]

A few years ago there was a company that set up in Australia offering
free long distance calls, they played an add to you at the beginning and
then every so often.

Came out with a lot of fanfare and disappeared pretty quickly.

Not sure if they went broke (most likely), couldn't find any users that
wanted free phone calls (unlikely)or the concept was ahead of it's time
(possibility).

There was also a couple of people that pushed free dialup internet in
return for users having to view a certain amount of their advertising.
Unfortunately the business models didn't stack up and they went belly
up.

cr

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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:06:57 +0800
From: Ronald Wiplinger <ronald at elmit.com>
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I am asked very often to let the user try for a while. And of course 
they want to have it for free. However, there is nothing like free lunch

out there.

I got the idea to "bother" these people, by playing an advertisement 
before they actually make the call and even after a certain time.
Has anybody done that before?

Ideas I got for that is:
1. put the caller into a conference call with the advertisment channel
2. let the caller listen to the first advertisement before inviting the 
other party to the conference
3. keep playing ads, till the called party is in the conference too.
4. immediately silent the ads, when called party pickes up
5. wait the desired time and start to play the next advertisement block.

Advanced feature:
1. give the caller the chance to pay for the call by key in a  
password(?), that means:
a. it kicks out the advertisement
or
b. forward the call (????) so that the call is now directly connected.

`?' means I am not sure if that is a good idea nor if that is possible


bye

Ronald