asterisk users - Jan 2005 - VoIP Providers and Backbone Servers

Hello All,

Well, my explorations in to the world of VoIP is proving fruitful and in
the near future I am hoping to have my small VoIP online service up and
running ready to help promote the industry and hopefully gain a few
customers in the process.

Additionally, I will soon have my IAX and SIP softphone ready that will
handle video, audio, and text communications.

I am looking for quality and fair priced service providers so that I can
add some of thier servies to my VoIP service which will start with an
Asterisk PBX and some reliable Billing software (still trying to decide,
but Trebas or ASTPP looks like it will work for me to get started.)

In particular I will be providing Phone-Phone, Phone-PC, PC-PC, and
PC-Phone connections.

I am looking for services like

1. PSTN Termination Services (Good International Rates)
2. 800 Tollfree  access line services
3. local, national, and international analog access line services in
addition to my Asterisk PBX, if they exist (for my Phone-* services)

and other services that you think are useful.

Any suggestions or comments are appreciated and if you know of a quality
service that I am looking for then now is the time and I invite your
responses to this email.

Thanks to everyone on this for giving me such great help,
Lonnie

I don't want to be a kill-joy, but after reading your various messages
over the last few days, I think you're in over your head on this one.  I
suggest you first get your own * system up and running.  Then,
re-examine your goals.  So far, you don't seem to be adding anything new
to the VOIP community, so I'm at a loss at how you expect to make money.
If you're reselling services, then you can't compete with the current
players in the market, as obviously their prices would be better than
yours.  If you're trying to bundle resold services, the big ones (like
Vonage) have an insurmountable advantage in infrastructure, volume and
installed base.  And lastly, if you expect to sell service along with
your own softphone client (which you still have to complete), there are
free solutions with established services out there (iconnecthere, etc).

So, besides (weak) competition, what are you going to add?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lonnie@outstep.com [mailto:lonnie@outstep.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 2:59 PM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Providers and Backbone Servers
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Well, my explorations in to the world of VoIP is proving 
> fruitful and in the near future I am hoping to have my small 
> VoIP online service up and running ready to help promote the 
> industry and hopefully gain a few customers in the process.
> 
> Additionally, I will soon have my IAX and SIP softphone ready 
> that will handle video, audio, and text communications.
> 
> I am looking for quality and fair priced service providers so 
> that I can add some of thier servies to my VoIP service which 
> will start with an Asterisk PBX and some reliable Billing 
> software (still trying to decide, but Trebas or ASTPP looks 
> like it will work for me to get started.)
> 
> In particular I will be providing Phone-Phone, Phone-PC, 
> PC-PC, and PC-Phone connections.
> 
> I am looking for services like
> 
> 1. PSTN Termination Services (Good International Rates)
> 2. 800 Tollfree  access line services
> 3. local, national, and international analog access line 
> services in addition to my Asterisk PBX, if they exist (for 
> my Phone-* services)
> 
> and other services that you think are useful.
> 
> Any suggestions or comments are appreciated and if you know 
> of a quality service that I am looking for then now is the 
> time and I invite your responses to this email.
> 
> Thanks to everyone on this for giving me such great help, Lonnie
> 
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