[Asterisk-Users] OT: How to "own" a telephone number?

[Martin List-Petersen]

On tor, 2005-02-03 at 19:13 +0000, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:02:03 +0100, Stefan Gofferje
> <stefan at gofferje.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe you have something like that too, where your customers don't pay
> > too much and you don't pay too much. A nice side effect is that nobody
> > will ever know that your companies HQ is in a lonely little village in
> > the middle of nowhere because everybody thinks "they have a service no.
> > they must be huge"...
> 
> Actually, when I see those I think "they must be a small company
> pretending to be a big company. Why should I pay more to call them
> just because they want to hide behind a non-geographic number?".
> 
> Here in the UK (and I guess, elswhere), NGNs are a scam. The top-line
> cost is the same as either a local or national call (OK so far), but
> they don't qualify for discounts and don't count in inclusive or
> unlimited packages, so actually they're much more expensive than a
> standard geographic number.
> 
> On the flipside, if you generate enough call minutes inbound you can
> get revenue share out of them. But that's for the big guys.....

Exactly that is the reason why most ITSPs provide NGNs for free VoIP
accounts in the UK. The money to run the business has to come from
somewhere. Either you pay a monthly fee for a local DID or you get the
revenue from inbound minutes, that a NGN could provide.

It's your choice.

Slán leat,
Martin List-Petersen
Dublin, Eire 
(contact info on --> http://www.marlow.dk/)