would like to find a cost anylysis for TDM vs. VOIP Telecommunications growth. Need a costing model?
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This kind of question is going to be best answered by a network consultant or a Cisco sales engineer.  If you really need a professional answer to this question then email me and i can give you some contact information for consultants that i associate with.
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Yes 1.95 per minute if you purchase the international plan...there are tons of MWR phones here and the ATT trailer. I have a soldier here who ran up a 2300 phone bill. the MWR was 30 meters from his trailer??? I dont know why some Soldeirs do what they do? I would sudjest you leave you phone home or if you desire bring it for emergency. Thats what I did I run convoys and if anything happens to me I want to be able to call my wife...good luck and dont let the rumours get to you life is decent over here and most Iraq people treat you well.\n\nWanted to add you can disconect at no charge under the military deployed program it puts your account on hold till you return...Cingular has worked with me for some time now.
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Good question.  There are a lot of options out there, some free, some pricey.  I've used Microsoft netmeeting along with a regular telephone conference bridge for business meetings with overseas divisions.  Works reasonably well.
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First, you should call your phone and cable company and ask them what it would take to get the service out to you; do you have neighbors that would like the service too?  If you get enough people asking, you can get them to roll out a line into your area, that is after all the way the make their money.  You do not sound like the local pofok, so you might consider meeting them half way, your dig a trench and run a fiber line from and center point of activity to a location that they have a fiber hut set up and then they set up a new fiber hut at point you started from.  They can set up your phone and DSL service from there and it probably will be better than it is now.  You could also inquire about FTTN fiber to the node.  That is AT&T’s newest product and if you can convince them to drop a line in your area you are in like flint.  They are going to be hitting that hard and heavy and the price is going to be cheap, Phone, TV and DSL service for about $80 and you will not get a better connection or quality of service anywhere, it is going to be sharp.\n\nIf the answer is no to all of that, Satellite is fine there will be a ten second lag between send and receive, but when you do start receiving it will be steady, not like the lines going a crossed the monitor or a slide show instead of a vid, like in the 90’s, it is a very good service and if all else fails, I highly recommend it.  It will be better than dial up by a long shot, that I assure you.\n\nA little side note about the meeting them halfway part, do not discount the good old boys if you happen to have money, but the people around you do not.  They may still want the service and whereas they may not be able to pay some one to run in the line for them, odds are they will just do it themselves if it means getting something they want.\n\n\nHope that helps,\n\nJohn B.
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I use packet8 and the only problems that I have had with it come from my isp. You can start service with them for alot less than some of the other voip providers at www.telebay.com/bestfone (about $16.00) the monthly charges are less too! I love it $20.55 a month(including taxes) for unlimited everything and just about any x-tra calling feature you can think of.
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First, about cellular generations. Having worked in the industry for a while, I have a narrower view what 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, etc. mean. First 1G service was based on a TDM voice infrastructure -- built around class x switches and 64 kbps slots. It had data, but circuit switched over a 64Kpbs voice bearer.\n\nSecond, 2G service had the same switched TDM backbone, but added a true Data Bearer and a digital voice bearer. Data rates were still limited to the max 64kbps of a single time slot.\n\n2.5G added a packet bearer to the mix, still limited to 64kbps slots.\n\nThird generation (3G) changed the backbone slightly to allow a full T1 or E1 or J1 to be consumed by a data sub-scriber, but is still based on an ISDN style backbone. Sure you have packet switched data, but its carried over a traditional TDM backbone. There still a circuit voice backbone and while the data rates are high enough for VoIP, the latency of the data service is to great to base all of the "bearer services" on it, so you still have circuit voice, circuit data and packet data bearers.\n\nFinally, 4G systems will utilize a packet infrastructure rather than a traditional telephone architecture. Services will be horizontally layered on top of a proper low latency, QoS enabled packet switch (read IP) infrastructure. Gone will be the circuit voice and circuit data bearers.\n\nSo "G" has more to do with the infra-structure and less to do with the data rates. The data rates over the air are driven by the organization of the infrastructure and other than that have little to do with what generation they are.\n\nIn that sense, this NexTel trial is a 4G trial. BTW, I'm a participant in that trial. If folks are interested, I'll post some results that I might be able to share.\n- by NetGuy
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Standard voice-over-IP uses about 100kbps.  Something like Vonage will use slightly less.  If you have cable or DSL with like a 3mbps service or better, you won't notice the extra load.
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Skype charges for calls to a regular phone number.  I don't think anyone else has risen to challenge Skype in terms of free service, but the field of VOIP is wide open if someone wanted to be the low cost provider!
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A monumental task!\nHope yur not the sole programmer.\nI recommend staying with standard C or Cobol\nA comprehensive telecom billing system will atke you years to write.
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Hi,\n    I would build a system around your opportunity. Even better, if you can make some money from the system whilst you promote your VoIP/MLM opp. you can finance your advertising etc. It's the same with any MLM opp - the secret to success is not in the product itself but the supporting structure or system. When you leverage a system you reach more people. \n\nSimply put, they are only going to sign up for your opp. if they want it. Most MLMers try to force products on people and that's why they have no success.
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I am caution on Vonage IPO.  I'd rather put my money in Master cartd IPO instead.  For the simple reason, too much competition on the cable phone area.
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Not too bad, have found that in the long run, BT is the safest bet though. Not the cheapest, but certainly the best service and the most reliable support...shop around and play them all up against each other, there is very little in it. Look out for additional charges for broadband usage over and above your agreed limit. My account with BT is a set fee of £x.00 a month, some of them will give you a base rate and then charge in addition to that base rate...
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If all lines may be in use at the same time, you probably need a T-1 line.  If you're going to have six phone lines, your best bet is an integrated T-1 provider that uses VOIP technology.  \n\nThis way, they will terminate all six of your lines into a punchdown block which can use standard phone jacks or plug into a system.  This way, you'll only have one box for all of your VOIP lines instead of having a box for each line.  Plus you'll get the benefit of having the T-1 line + the six phone lines on the same bill.\n\nCheck out http://metrot1.com/content/view/47/62/  for pricing information.\n\nThe reason you need a faster connection is because VOIP uses up to 53k PER line.  Therefore, if all six lines were in use, you'd be running 318k of your bandwidth in phone calls.  Most DSL and cable providers advertise UP TO 384k in upload bandwidth but typically run closer to 280-300k.  You wouldn't have enough bandwidth to use both internet and phone.
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Communications will always be a good business. In fact, I've been trying to figure out how I can get my hands on $7000 to buy some equipment and start my own business. I can more than double my investment in just a year with the idea I have.
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Look at some of the DSL providers (phone companies) in your area and give them a call for some prices, I know verizon is like 14.95, or 17.95. it one of those. Cable is going to be more expensive and 60 dollars a month...
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cost:  vonage is less.\n\nsetup:  timewarner set it up. vonage did not set up mine.  I set it up vonage myself.  you can have the geek squad at best buy or someplace set vonage up.  or a friend that can do it for free.
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as far as i know, there is nothing like that as of now. \nit is because of that fact that phone service costs money everywhere in the world. \nthe technology of voip is still developing in many areas because of various constraints.