For all thous companies with the usless completly clueless sales people. when I ask if I can use my own equipment I do not mean my own phone. Holy dumb a*** packet8 people I am still not sure if I can use there service with my own equipment cause .. ugh will not go there... they guy I spoke to had no idea what SIP was
If your a VOIP provider and you are reading this. basic training. what the codecs you use or pass on . that your devices are actualy SIP clients (alot of your sales people do not know shocking I know!) what "use your own equipment" really means , not hard I have my own PAP2-NA and for gods sake what a asterisk 's box is. its not that hard. You could even give them a mini explaination. like its a software phoneserver that runs a mini PBX maybe explain a mini on what a PBX is..
Oh and locked devices is great for grandma and monopolizing. and I am sure there is enough monies to go around. But if the consumer is getting heavier into the technology they will learn soon that with there own equipment they have more freedom. Yes your argument that the people will use your connection on more then one SIP phone could be bad ... my Golly I guess you are in capable of monitoring it and say charging some penelty if they do.. No lets just restrickt your market to one device.
but hummmm broadvoice are so swamped in business that they can barly keep up. yet they are completly open and claim that if someone tryes to use 2 instances of there service they just charge them for it. No biggie win win for them.
shows they know how it works and are capible of seeing what users want.
Mark my word if you offer great plans (2cents a min is not great plans) and offer rewards for people who use there own equipment
-no support (win win)
-your own equipment you can support thats fine.
-there is not alot to voip settings .. server dial plan nat if there is any and login/pass its not rocket science.
oh and finaly accepting money from othere countries like canada is ok. frig. I have to have a american account at a bank .. like thats a common canadian thing to just buy your service.. give us a few more options. heck I don't care if I have to pre pay for the F*** year or 6 months or
10 days ahead of each bill for that matter let me pay you so I can use your service.oh and finnaly Give nice perks for people willing to do a seminar on your product (you know do all the work for you pushing the product)
heck I pay for a account and offered at a provider I will not name. and explained to them I would love to push them but the few cents for each caller was not doing it for me.
ok maybe I am greedy .. that is not wrong
mind my typo's this is not my first language
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