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Junction Networks Charges for On-Net VoIP Calls: Is VoIP 2.0 Behind the Corner?

by Luca Filigheddu on November 11, 2008



Junction Networks Charges for On-Net VoIP Calls: Is VoIP 2.0 Behind the Corner?

A couple of days ago I received a press release by my friends at Andy Abramson’s Comunicano in regards of a recent agreement by Junction Networks and edgeBOX. 

In a nutshell, according to this agreement, Junction Networks has been selected by edgeBOX to be the preferred voice provider for their “office-in-a-box” solution. edgeBOX is “an integrated device aimed at the SMB market and including a full-fledged IP-PBX, wireless access point, router, file, e-mail and VPN server”.

In this story what caught my attention is the following paragraph:

Calls between edgeBOX extensions, whether on-premise or around the world across Internet connections, will incur half-cent-per-minute charges. 

What? IP to IP voice calls are not FREE? Guys, I love this. Praises to Junction Networks and edgeBOX for this brave choice! While someone could see this as a downside of this service, I look at it as a great innovation and potentially the beginning of a new era for VoIP.

On-net VoIP calls have always been offered for free, without any charge. To my knowledge, every VoIP service out there doesn’t charge for IP to IP calls. This could work in the past, but in times where there is a new VoIP service coming out every day and when you offer SMB services to companies whose traffic is mainly on-premise, how can you make money and make your customers happy at the same time? 

This is a great way to lower monthly fees and avoiding long term contracts, something companies don’t always want to deal with. Small companies sometimes don’t trust on VoIP services completely, thinking quality could be an issue. With this approach they don’t feel to be bound to a certain service for a long time, so it definitely helps to shorten the sales cycle. And, we are not talking of a fortune, it’s half-cent per minute ;-)

For more information about this new collaboration, take a look at the official press release.

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  • Thanks! Let me clear up something about the 1/2 cent charge for on-network calls. If you want to call a SIP address using an edgebox PBX, Junction Networks doesn't charge for, nor do we really have anything to do with that Internet call. BUT, let's say you have two offices with edgebox PBXs, one using IAX, one using SIP. In order to place calls between them, you need a trunking provider that will stay in the call and perform protocol translation. That costs us bandwidth and processor utilization so we have to charge. The same goes for calls between conflicting codec users, NAT conflicts, etc.

    The important distinction is that a TRUNKING service is nothing more than a POTS line delivered over an IP connection. INTERNET calls, such as pure SIP address calls, that don't require TRUNKING services, should not be sent to a TRUNKING provider but rather over the Internet. The routing for TRUNK vs. Other should be handled in the dial plan of the PBX.
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