[Asterisk-Users] GSM Gateway / Terminal for sale

[Robert Augustyn]

Are GSM gateways allowed in Canada?
And can we resell it?
Robert


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Steve Kennedy
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:17 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM Gateway / Terminal for sale
> 
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:23:26PM -0000, Chris Bagnall wrote:
> 
> > > I don't get it. What is the advantage of using a GSM gateway? 
> > > VOIP calls are pretty inexpensive as they are now.
> > It largely depends on the country you're calling. Here in the UK, 
> > calls to mobiles are maintained at an artificially high 
> rate because 
> > the terminating network (the mobile networks) get a cut of call 
> > revenue for calls *to* your mobile. By contrast, in the US, 
> the mobile 
> > customer often pays a small charge per minute on incoming 
> calls (as I understand the market over there).
> > You'll also find in the UK the mobile phone market is heavily 
> > subsidized by the networks such that you can get phones for free if 
> > you sign up to 12 month contracts. I often find that it's 
> > cost-effective to get a new contract every 12 months (with a free 
> > phone), even if I don't want the phone. Flog the phone on ebay and 
> > you've got a spare SIM with lots of inclusive minutes for 
> almost nothing.
> 
> In the UK the wholesale rates are set by Ofcom (like the 
> FCC), which works out about 7p'ish per minute.
> 
> However the operators can offer retail bundles (including 
> phones) and for a monthly contract they "throw" in various 
> ammounts of cross network minutes (or free to their own 
> network or whatever). With clever dial-plans and multiple 
> terminals connected to multiple networks you can generally 
> get "free" calls to mobile users (basically clever least cost 
> routing, time of day sometimes needs to be taken into account 
> as well).
> 
> However there are some disadvantages, the main being you cant 
> set CLI of the outgoing call as it will always be tied to the 
> SIM of the mobile terminal.
> 
> Another is that you can NOT run a GSM gateway (as they're 
> known) for 3rd parties. So if you want to connect your office 
> PBX to a gateway to make use of cheap mobile termination for 
> your own company that's fine, but as an ITSP (or traditional 
> telco) you can not allow 3rd party traffic to utilise a 
> gateway. If networks find you are using a gateway (as a 
> telco) they can cut it off, no questions asked. Gateways have 
> been determined to be fixed infrastructure, therefore NOT mobile.
> 
> There is (or maybe was by now) an Ofcom consultation asking 
> whether this should be changed, the mobile operators will 
> fight it, telcos and other users will be asking for it to be changed.
> 
> Of course this is UK specific, other countries have more 
> lenient policies (I think Belgium allow gateways, France 
> doesn't allow any kind, and some allow them with the 
> co-operation of the operators).
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
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