asterisk users - Jun 2004 - slightly OT: VoIP more expensive than Call-By-Call

Hi,

is it just me, or are the VoIP providers for Germany more expensive than 
going via call-by-call?

sipgate.de lists a price of 1.76ct a minute, a couple of call-by-calls 
are listed at 1.3ct-1.5ct a minute.

Did anyone else thought this to be strange?

What about other countries? Same thing?!

It seems to me, VoIP providers only make sense for headquarter to 
subsidiary, but not for regular phone usage.
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> is it just me, or are the VoIP providers for Germany more expensive
> than going via call-by-call?
>
> sipgate.de lists a price of 1.76ct a minute, a couple of call-by-calls
> are listed at 1.3ct-1.5ct a minute.
I see it exactly like you.

I'm probably NOT using Asterisk for outbound VOIP-Calls. The prices are 
not that good and that a usual german T-DSL connection introduces a delay 
of 70ms without the "fastpath" option won't help either.

Some good LCR based dialplan / AGI would be more helpful, I guess. That 
could select all those call-by-call prefix numbers that might give you 
the most Blalaber for your Cent.

Hi!
> is it just me, or are the VoIP providers for Germany more expensive than 
> going via call-by-call?
> 
> What about other countries? Same thing?!
The thing is that only in Germany Call-By-Call providers have *that* low 
prices. Anywhere else in Europe - at least in the small and middle-sized 
countries - you'll surely give preference to VoIP due to better pricing. 
That's very clearly the case for Belgium, for example.

Cheers, Philipp