On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:33:41 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 14:24:54 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > >> For those -friends, family, skype-friendly, etc...- I just simply use >> the low land-line/mobile rates my SIP provider has and place them a >> standard call. > > There some good deals in the SIP --> PSTN world but, depending on your > country of residence and the regulatory telecom regime, PSTN --> PSTN > can be very competitive with it.
Here (Spain) rates for mobile phone calls are still very expensive. There are some bonuses for free calling when you sign-up for some offers but I find that options very limited and restrictive (calls must have place between X and Y hour of the day, cannot last more that Z minutes, they don't apply when you call to the competing carrier...). A complete and inconvenient mess. Spanish telecommunications market is (still!) a "game" that takes place between 3 main carriers in mobile telephony (Telefonica, Vodafone and Orange) but Telefonica is the "king of the hill" when it comes to land line. >> I never liked Sykpe, it's all the opposite I think a good SIP software >> should be: open and standards compliant. > > One area in which Skype (the network, not the software) scores is that > any Skype (the network) user can connect to any other Skype user. It is > not unlikely for sip: u...@sipnetwork.com to fail because sipnetwork.com > does not allow this rather basic usage of the SIP protocol. I think we are still in an early stage of the SIP/VoIP telephony. I'd say most of the Skype success has been to be the first company to offer what users wanted at a very low rates (or free for their internal traffic) when nobody else provided such services. And beeing the first -while not being the best- has its reward: a legion of users that are now stuck with them because their buddies are also using it. This has to change when ENUM numbers become a reality and all the SIP traffic is transparently routed regardless of the network. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.13.18.58...@gmail.com
