[82611] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GSM gateways in the US?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Sun Jul 24 20:34:08 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050724232153.24175.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com>
Cc: netfortius@gmail.com, nanog@nanog.org
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:31:02 -0400
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 24 Jul 2005, at 19:21, John Levine wrote:
>
>>> North America is all mobile party pays,
>>> so calls to mobile cost the same as calls to landline.
>
>> ... not inside the [same provider's] mobile network, cell phone to
>> cell phone. See T-Mobile's "Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile" component of
>> their services, as an example. This (unlimited, for a flat, usually
>> minuscule, fee) is what I am hoping to achieve with a gateway (making
>> the PBX behind it look like any other mobile phone).
>
> I don't understand where you're planning to save money here. Calls
> into a mobile network are free for the caller under any circumstances.
The original message talked about calls from the mobile network into
the office, not calls from the office into the mobile network.
Joe
