asterisk users - Dec 2006 - [Fwd: RE: any possibility of Vonage Integration]

I stand corrected!
However you do get my point ...

The bigger the company the worse it is. Having to deal with these guys is
a nightmare. The company that brings me out in spots is Rogers Cable
(24/7). They have this electronic air-head called "Gertrude" or
something,
(an android) who can't understand the word "NO" and has trouble
with "YES"
(actually like my ex-wife now that I think about it) but anyway, the point
is that these companies spend millions of dollars on advertizing how much
they care about you and your dog/cat/rabbit/beaver/etc. but won't spend an
extra few bucks to have another person in the call center.

My future policy is make a bogus call to the call center before you buy
the companies product.
TTFN

Henry L.Coleman CEO
*VoIP-PBX* 1-866-415-5355
Toronto Ontario
Canada

> LOL.. Sorry, had to point this out:
>
> I think you meant Timbuktu...
> http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/wh-timbuktu.html
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> Henry.L.Coleman
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 4:35 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] any possibility of Vonage Integration
>
> This "24/7" mantra that companies keep promoting to us is often
just the
ability to subject us to endless hours of their lame MOH while you wait
for the one "service specialist" to answer the phone from
"Tinbuckto".
>
> My apologies if you live in Tinbukto.
>
> Henry L.Coleman CEO
> *VoIP-PBX* 1-866-415-5355
> Toronto Ontario
> Canada
>
>
>> You login to your vonage account on the web and set the bandwidth saver
option. That is the most you can do with a locked ATA.
>>
>> Vijay Gandhi wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for all the feedback on the message, if i do the vonage
integration using FXo card, is there any possibility of working on
G729 or GSM codec, because linksys boxes by default use G711, which
consumes hell lot of B/w.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Vijay Gandhi
>>>
>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>> *From:* Al Bochter [mailto:Al.Bochter@bochterservices.com]
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 05, 2006 4:06 PM
>>> *To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>> *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-users] any possibility of Vonage
Integration
>>>
>>>Brad Templeton,
>>>
>>>Thats a very good point.
>>>
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>
>>>Al Bochter
>>>Bochter Services
>>>http://www.BochterServices.com/?t=Email
>>>
>>>(VOIP PBX) 1-866-638-1254
>>>
>>>(Voip PBX) Free World DialUp: 780-217
>>>WebSite: http://www.freeworlddialup.com/
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Paul wrote:
>>>
>>>>Brad Templeton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:36:12AM -0500, Al Bochter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>And if you get someone over at Vonage that knows that to
do you can
>
>>>>>>connect without the FXO It is like FWD you have to get
the KEY from
>
>>>>>>Vonage for this to work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>And more to the point there are so many VoIP providers out
there,
most of them cheaper, who do not require you to use a locked ATA, and
thus work great with Asterisk.  I number will speak IAX or SIP at
your desire.
>>>>>
>>>>>Don't be fooled by the flat rates of the locked-box
providers. The
real rates are so low these days most people pay less paying
per
>
>>>>>minute than paying a Vonage style flat rate.  In addition
people
report if you start making really heavy usage of your Vonage flat
rate so that they are losing money on you, they notice and try to
stop it.
>>>>>
>>>>>$25/month will buy you close to 50 hours of urban SIP
termination,
it's down to half a cent in some of the big cities.   Are you going
to average 50 hours on the phone each month?   Some people do, but
most don't.   (Otherwise Vonage could not even pretend it is going to
make money.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Vonage has 24/7 support. When my DID is out I don't want to
wait until
Monday morning.
>>>>
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