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Start Your Own Open Source-Based Telecom

Posted by timothy on from the or-at-least-daydream-about-it dept.

prostoalex writes "George Ou shows how with the help of open-source VOIP server Asterisk you can start your own telecommunications company for under $6000 '...you can build a phone system that can support 72 analog telephones or fax machines, 100 IP hard or soft phones on site or remote, a T1 line to the public telco for 23 simultaneous external PSTN connections, multiple IP-based IAX trunks to multiple remote offices for seamless toll-bypass 4-digit dialing, IVR, and almost unlimited voice mail for everyone - for under $6,000 in a 1U chassis. Such a price point is easily 10 or more times cheaper than a commercial alternative,' writes George."

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  1. Obligatory Steps to Profit by me+at+werk · · Score: -1, Redundant
    1. Install Asterisk
    2. Get a website
    3. Set up a subscribe button.
    4. ???
    5. PROFIT!
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    1. Re:Obligatory Steps to Profit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      Only people with a mod point deficiency *wouldn't* mod this down.