[SIPForum-discussion] How is SIP billed ?

[Pat Borka]

Understood, Thank you for the explanation.

Pat

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Yevgen Krapiva <ykrapiva at gmail.com> wrote:

> Internal call billling leads to Lawfull Interception possibility.
> In some countries, especially in mine (Ukraine), vendors MUST provide
> possibility to sniff subscribers voice or data traffic.
>
> 2009/4/23, Pat Borka <pat.borka at gmail.com>:
>  > If you are making a call internally why would you want to bill it? Not
> > to challenge the logic so much. I am more interested in the logic
> > behind internal billing.
> >
> > Pat
> >
> > On 4/23/09, Manish Aggarwal <maaggarwal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  Thats correct !!
> >>
> >> While there are well defined means to bill the "SIP trunk" calls, the
> SIP
> >> extension to extension calls cannot be billed with that much accuracy.
> >> May be thats the reason companies like Vonage, Viatalk, Sunrocket
> >> (already
> >> bankrupt)  etc, (which use SIP), take an annual charge, and not on a per
> >> call
> >> basis.
> >>
> >> -Manish
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Yevgen Krapiva <ykrapiva at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi.
> >>>
> >>> Can you say me what methods are used to bill SIP phone calls ?
> >>> As I understand, to bill SIP you must ensure that all SIP signalling
> >>> passes some Proxy or B2BUA. This is impossible as I can always call
> >>> another caller directly, passing by proxy.
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