[Asterisk-Users] Re: Bellster - IAX-based interchange -- lets you call anywhere for free

[Mark Eissler]

It's completely legitimate for the telcos to monitor this type of 
thing. I would think that the primary users of the Bellster system 
would be home users and residential lines are not meant to be tied up 
full time. That's how capacity is determined and that's how rates are 
calculated (based on usage). It's the same problem that Mom & Pop ISP's 
ran into while trying to run out of a basement.

Besides, telcos are going to be wary anyway of this type of thing 
because of the erosion of their traditional business thanks to VOIP.

-mark

On Jan 24, 2005, at 8:52 PM, Steven P. Donegan wrote:

> I don't want to be negative here, but I do believe people who go to do 
> this know the potential risks they face. In many countries (4 of which 
> I have direct, although several year old experience with - all in 
> Asia) taking a local phone line and attaching asterisk to it and 
> gatewaying traffic from other countries will be considered to be 
> 'theft' by the local governments/telco's (of their long distance 
> revenues). My experiences were all with USA<-> Asian manufacturing 
> locations - if you did voice-over-network between the same companies 
> offices no sweat - the moment you allowed hop-off/hop-on gatewaying 
> you were at risk to lose your phone lines!!!
>
> Samuel Tardieu wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Guy <edguy at pulver.com> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>
>> Ed> Now, Jeff Pulver has created Bellster(tm) - Half Napster/Half
>> Ed> Party Line - to fully realize the original vision.  We've just
>> Ed> finished our testing and it is now open for your use. We'd love to
>> Ed> hear your feedback.
>>
>> This is awesome! I just setup my Asterisk server today, this could not
>> be a better timing for me :) Feel free to call France landline
>> numbers, my Asterisk is waiting for you :)
>>
>>  Sam
>>
>
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