Hello Forum,
today i want to share with you our new approach for free telephony and sms.
We use Asterisk2Billing for our Callback and Callthrough services since 2 years now. We made several little adjustments to fit our needs, which was very easy to do (thanks to the great and structered code of A2B )
Now we implemented a new project on
http://www.bee-talk.comThe differnence is basically the missing payments of the users and the integration of A2B.
We developed a small API for several functions (for example "Creating new users", "Creditcheck", "Initiate Callback", ...)
Forthermore we added support for sending SMS. which we integrated in our Call History to keep track on the profit.
This allowed us to make a complete independent website, which works on his own server without A2B, which runs on another machine. All call, sms an user functions are connected via our API with Requests.
With this technique we were able to implement the function directly in our websute and we think, that we improved the security of the A2B machine as it's on a seperate server.
Why is everything free. The concept is easy. We used a monetization partner to offer commercial ads like polls and stuff. If the users do these offers they get "Call Points". With these Call Points you can call or write sms for free.
The website started quite good in the german market and we are looking forward to the next months to see how it goes...
I'm would be happy to get feedback from you guys...
Cheers