[SIPForum-discussion] How is SIP billed ?

[Medve, Steve]

Why not put account code or authorization codes assigned to different
extensions/stations thereby allowing you to track internal calls going
out.  You could then group people by what department they are in such as
accounting, engineering, or even by top talkers.  If they are making
toll calls then the use of an authorization code to access that trunk
would be needed and could be better tracked.  

Steven A. Medve 
REDCOM Laboratories, Inc.
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Victor, NY 14564-0995
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[mailto:discussion-bounces at sipforum.org] On Behalf Of Pat Borka
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:15 PM
To: Manish Aggarwal; Yevgen Krapiva; discussion at sipforum.org
Subject: Re: [SIPForum-discussion] How is SIP billed ?

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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