The Code Project Reputation Hotline - A sample Azure telephony application [modified]
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
most cell phones treated long distance and local calls the same
Well maybe in the U.S. but certainly no where in Canada.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
calling plans
Ahhh...I see. This is the disconnect. You are paying a premium for a special plan to have flat rate calling to long distance. I rarely ever call long distance so I'm paying the much cheaper monthly price which charges extra for long distance. I hazard to say that despite your familiarity with voip services it would be a pretty rare circumstance to run into another person who uses it in a random survey at let's say a grocery store in your area.
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John C wrote:
Ahhh...I see. This is the disconnect. You are paying a premium for a special plan to have flat rate calling to long distance. I rarely ever call long distance so I'm paying the much cheaper monthly price which charges extra for long distance.
Actually, about 7 years ago (I'm in the US, btw), I had MCI phone service because it was only $49.95 a month and included unlimited local and long distance calling for a flat rate. With SBC (now AT&T) the standard 400 calls with no long distance calling was $39.99 a month. I didn't really thing that $10 more a month was any kind of "premium", it just was a better deal since my wife has family a few states away. She called them enough to make it worth it for us to just pay $10 a month in case she wanted to call more than she currently had. I think we paid a total of $5 - $10 a month over when we were on AT&T so we broke even some months on MCI and others we had paid more. I think in our area AT&T is the only one to offer phone services without unlimited long distance because they have different packages to choose from... But if you look at those packages you end up only paying a few bucks less to not have long distance than you would to just have unlimited. Or you can just have high speed internet and pay $2.99 a month for skype. It has unlimited long distance calling in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It works great too. You can get a box that you can hook a conventional telephone to. I've been using it for years.
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John C wrote:
Ahhh...I see. This is the disconnect. You are paying a premium for a special plan to have flat rate calling to long distance. I rarely ever call long distance so I'm paying the much cheaper monthly price which charges extra for long distance.
Actually, about 7 years ago (I'm in the US, btw), I had MCI phone service because it was only $49.95 a month and included unlimited local and long distance calling for a flat rate. With SBC (now AT&T) the standard 400 calls with no long distance calling was $39.99 a month. I didn't really thing that $10 more a month was any kind of "premium", it just was a better deal since my wife has family a few states away. She called them enough to make it worth it for us to just pay $10 a month in case she wanted to call more than she currently had. I think we paid a total of $5 - $10 a month over when we were on AT&T so we broke even some months on MCI and others we had paid more. I think in our area AT&T is the only one to offer phone services without unlimited long distance because they have different packages to choose from... But if you look at those packages you end up only paying a few bucks less to not have long distance than you would to just have unlimited. Or you can just have high speed internet and pay $2.99 a month for skype. It has unlimited long distance calling in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It works great too. You can get a box that you can hook a conventional telephone to. I've been using it for years.
TheCodeMonk wrote:
only $49.95 a month
:omg: Only? Wow what a steal? :) That's a bloody huge amount to pay per month for a phone or am I crazy. With all the competition you have in the U.S. I'd think it would be a small fraction of that.
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These days I am playing with telephone applications. Unlike mobile web applications, these applications still use old fashioned voice, dial and text inputs. As a sample, I developed a code project reputation hotline. Those of you in the US can dial (404) 721 1770 (I know it is risky to give away numbers but I am going to recycle the number for my real production application). You can dial in your member id and you will hear your reputation score. Alternatively, you can sms to this number with your member id and you will get a reply SMS with your reputation score. Try it out. [Edit] You can use Gmail voice calling to call free and anonymously [/Edit] I am myself curious to know how well it holds up with substantial traffic. I can post it as an article but since it uses a third party service, the article may be construed as an ad by some.
modified on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:48 PM
I tried it and it worked great, but I'm curious as to how the telephone is interfaced to Azure.
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My vote is to post the article ... I'd like to see it at least!
I agree. I'd like to see the article as well.