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[jmesquita at gmail.com]

We have very high taxes on hardware imports in Brazil, so software is
not a problem on the equation. Cisco's routers for example are 3 times
more expensive here then in the US (even the cheap ones). If the price
of the equipment is compared to the price of the G729 license, the
latter becomes quite insignificant. And bw has poor quality and high
prices.

The same rule applies to all Latin America.

Hope I have illustrated the picture correctly.

JMesquita


On Jan 23, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Michael Collins wrote:

[krivushinme at rn-info...]

On Saturday 24 January 2009 05:59:08 Rehan Allah Wala wrote:

[rehan at supertec.com]

Great, well I am not a programmer and do not understand the code at all

My Apology

Rehan

[telles-listas at devel...]

Hi Michael,

I'm not sure about this, when we need to use G729 on asterisk for example, we pay the digium (U$ 10/channel) licenses.
U$ 1.00 dolar = R$ 2.31 (Brazilian Real - local currency).

Att.,

Em 23-01-2009 18:29, Michael Collins escreveu:

[alhakeem at gmail.com]

Is Brazil a 3rd world country ? The last I hear Brazil was building
aeroplanes, has it's own space and nuclear program and a GNP UK would be
envious of.
Cheers,
AH

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P. Telles
Sent: 26 January 2009 20:07
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] mod_g729

Hi Michael,

I'm not sure about this, when we need to use G729 on asterisk for example,
we pay the digium (U$ 10/channel) licenses.
U$ 1.00 dolar = R$ 2.31 (Brazilian Real - local currency).

Att.,

Em 23-01-2009 18:29, Michael Collins escreveu:

[steveu at coppice.org]

Hi Abdul,

Abdul Hakeem wrote:

[jmesquita at gmail.com]

Steve,

As we speak I am actually negotiating with one of those companies to
make a mod for their cards. Khomp has a very nice product and they are
exporting to the rest of latin america now.

Thanks,

Mesquita

On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:46 AM, Steve Underwood wrote:

[steveu at coppice.org]

Hi João,

João Mesquita wrote:

[raul at etellicom.com]

Hi João,

Please say hello to Giancarlo at Khomp for me :)

Khomp is the best example in Brazil of what good engineering and fair
commercial prices can do to a country that suffers from high import
taxes. Unfortunately some companies are still inclined to buy imported
products/brands instead of favouring local production. Apart from this
discriminatory issue, I believe that local research and production can
turn the table of trade barriers imposed to development countries.

By the way, are you aware of any companies producing SIP phones in
Brazil ?

Regards,

Raul Fragoso

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 01:34 -0200, João Mesquita wrote:

[steveu at coppice.org]

Raul Fragoso wrote:

[telles-listas at devel...]

Hi Abdul,

Brazil does much more than that but we still on "latim america" and according with 1st world countries, we are
considered "non developed country".
The most funny thing about that: some people still thinks that we (brazillians) lives in the forest with monkeys

Regards,
Rodrigo Telles

Em 26-01-2009 19:30, Abdul Hakeem escreveu:

[raul at etellicom.com]

Hi Steve,

My point is more towards the high import taxes here. A foreign company
won't pay as much taxes to export to Brazil as brazilians would pay
import taxes for such goods.
I will give you a simple example: a Snom 320 phone would cost roughly US
$180.00 if bought in the US. Here it would cost at least double the
price, but usually more. We pay almost 100% for importing taxes + GST,
excluding the greedy profit that dealers and resellers usually apply,
but Snom (or their distributors) would pay only a small fraction of that
to export phones to Brazil. The irony is that we don't see where all
this money is spent, as the country still suffers of a huge social and
economical dissimilarity among their people.
On the other hand, our current government seems to be making some
progress to make exporting from Brazil easier, specially for small
companies (international trade is known to be very bureaucratic here).
Anyway, this is turning into a politics discussion thread and I know it
can annoy some people. Just to stay in the subject thread, I also
endorse the support for open codecs rather than paying millions for
G.729 licenses.

Regards,

Raul Fragoso

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 15:23 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:

[jgarland at jasongarla...]

If you want Speex support you need to target the chipset manufacturers:

Here is the Texas Insturments chipset that Polycom uses in the IP650

[peder at networkoblivi...]

[intralanman at freeswi...]

Rodrigo P. Telles wrote: