Besides selling traffic via their own facilities in foreign countries, Internet telephony wholesalers can keep themselves in business by carrying traffic for the big long-distance carriers in the U.S. and other countries. That way, they'll provide you with good rates exclusively. IDT's success in international markets, combined with the facilities it has established internationally, enables the company to carry high volumes of service minutes to and from international carriers. IDT aggregates international minutes and then sends them over the carriers' networks. We have to be able to prove to those carriers that minutes are everything.
Minutes are king.
Under the arbitrage model, Internet telephony service providers use points of presence in different countries to terminate their own international traffic. Then they connect to each country's public-switched network locally, avoiding the usually high connection fees charged by national carriers for completing international calls. Then subscribe to the IAW E-Mail Alert. Openwave Be a part of the communications revolution. 810, the high-tech dream machine.