Help about business idea

Hello everybody,

newbie question

Like first i am not trying to get rich overnight, just to earn few bucks so can pay some bills.

I found VOIP provider who have very cheap rates, cheaper then many calling cards, so i was thinking, if is possible to implement the following setup.

- Get toll free number
- The customer(s) will call this toll free number.
- Using (switch, router or another device that i don't know if even exist) will forward (route) the call from the customer to the destination using my account with the VOIP provider.
- Billing software
- And of course, the bandwidth, what kind of bandwidth will be enough to accommodate huge number of callers.


I will be something as a middleman, charging the customers slightly higher rate then the original VOIP provider.

Although i am kinda new in this field, i have background in technical implementation in CCTV, and low voltage systems.


Appreciate any answer.

Alex

Hi Alex

Welcome to Voipuser

I already spotted a tiny flaw in the plan

Quote:

The customer(s) will call this toll free number

Who pays for that then?

Toll free numbers involve an advance payment on the part of their owner to cover the cost of the handling the inbound leg of the call. + if you only have one toll free number then its customer not customer(s) - you will only handle one call at a time which is not going to make big bucks is it?

Did you take a look at this post? ... http://www.voipuser.org/forum_topic_8289.html

Hi Gray, thank you for the quick reply

About the toll free number, i am kinda curious how the system is used with the calling card, for example.
I have calling card, i am scratching for the pin number, i am calling the toll free or the local number (at this point, i can assume that there is more then one person at the same time calling the same number) i am entering the pin and the destination number.
So how is this implemented?

Thank you

Hi

You have hit the nail on the head as to why you can find voip routes cheaper than calling cards. as the rate on a calling card is, at its simplest :

tollfreecost + Callcost + printing cost + advertising + profit = rate_customer_pays

Ian

Thank you guys for squashing my short dream but i am not giving up, yet ...

Anyway, i think i did figure it out how to use the toll free number with multiple concurrent incoming calls, so now i am trying to resolve
the second problem, the
"- Using (switch, router or another device that i don't know if even exist) will forward (route) the call from the customer to the destination using my account with the VOIP provider.", and the rest of my original questions.

any advice is appreciated.

Althebigest,

I think your plan sounds good. I know that you can have one main 800 numbers that can handle multiple calls or large call volumes. I'm not sure exactly what it is called but what is done is the 800 number is a pointer to other lines that are available to use. With VoIP, this is much easier than old analog lines. With the traditional 800 number that point to "auxillary" numbers, where the call is carried out, you have to pay for the 800 number and each additional phone line that is linked to the 800 number. So if you want 10 people to be able to use the system all the time, you have to have 10 lines linked to the 800 number.

With VoIP, i believe that you are limited by bandwidth. I'm not sure but I think that you can have as many outgoing VoIP calls as is supported by the bandwidth.

It's a good idea. Keep working on it!

Good Luck

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Hi Althebigest


Nice Decision, try to search for VOIP providers and download some trials. In that way you can compare which is the best provider and which is not. Surfing is the answer to your problem. In searching for the best provider try to choose not so cheep and not so expensive, actually the price depends on the specs needed.