[Asterisk-Users] Qs about FXO/FXS cards

[Greg - Cirelle Enterprises]

At 12:29 PM 1/4/05, you wrote:
>Greg - Cirelle Enterprises wrote:
>
>>When you try to sell the asterisk system, you have to compete with that and
>>frankly, all the people want is to make phone calls.
>>Mention voice over ip and eyebrows raise, "I've heard of that", but in 
>>reality
>>nobody cares how their phone calls are made, just that it goes through.
>>If you can't save them a bunch of money, there is little or no reason to 
>>diverge
>>to a more costly system, that will "save in the long run", regardless of the
>>additional feature set, which if they can't touch it, feel it taste it,
>>smell it, smoke it, makes no difference at all.
>
>Yeppers.
>
>Then in six months or a year, or whatever timeframe (these things are 
>expected to provide many years of use by those who consider their price 
>expensive) they will ask you, "How do I use one of these newfangled ITSPs 
>with our system?"
>
>"Why do I have to still have to use an answering machine?"
>
>"Why am I paying $7/line for CallerID?"
>
>"Can I set this thing up to automatically forward to my cell phone when 
>I'm not in the office?"
>
>"Can we have an autoattendant like everyone else does now?"
>
>"Why do I still have to pay for conferencing?"
>
>"Can I set things up so that all the sales phones ring at the same time 
>until someone picks one up?
>
>Etc. etc.
>
>I fielded questions like these from a businessman the other day who loudly 
>bemoaned having invested some fairly hefty cash (in small business terms) 
>on a Nortel key system, THREE YEARS AGO.
>
>Imagine what he would have sounded like had he cut that check last month 
>instead.
>
>Maybe these talkswitches are smart and can do a lot of those things.  I 
>don't know anything about them.  I do think the play that VoIP is getting, 
>pretty much all over the place, in the "mainstream" and "business" media, 
>will soon result in the average businessperson knowing much more about it 
>than is presently known.
>
>At that point some of the economy mentioned in your email is going to seem 
>misguided, IMO.
>
>B.


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