| From sending messages by tying the same to pigeons, | | | | remember that in order to sell the service, |
| to the invention of traditional public switch telephony | | | | comprehensive knowledge about the technicalities of |
| network and finally to IP telephony, we have come a | | | | VoIP is not needed. Rather what are needed are |
| long way in terms of communication and technology. | | | | excellent marketing skills to sell it to the clients. It would |
| The telecom industry has undergone a tremendous | | | | suffice if a wholesaler has a decent knowledge of the |
| change with the invention of VoIP telephony service. | | | | workings of VoIP services, so as to be able to |
| VoIP service providers provide their services to | | | | maintain his own equipments. In order to start up as a |
| corporates, wholesale VoIP carriers and VoIP resellers. | | | | VoIP wholesaler, one will have to spend a considerable |
| Wholesale providers of VoIP further resell their | | | | amount of money in setting up the infrastructure and in |
| services to resellers, who in turn sell VoIP minutes to | | | | purchasing the technical equipments needed for call |
| end-users or residentials. The main difference between | | | | transmission such as gateways, switches etc. |
| a wholesaler and a reseller is the volume of their | | | | However, the gains from this field are high and this is |
| business. A wholesaler usually has a large clientage | | | | precisely why an increasingly large number of people |
| spread across a given area; whereas a reseller would | | | | have set up wholesale services of voice over IP. |
| normally have a comparatively smaller client base. | | | | The main advantage of being a wholesaler of voice |
| In order to decide whether you should start up as a | | | | over internet protocol is that since they provide |
| wholesaler or a reseller, one should consider their client | | | | maximum traffic to the provider, they are able to |
| base. If you have a large clientèle or enough | | | | command the market price of VoIP minutes. Hence, it |
| marketing force to create one then VoIP wholesale is | | | | is definitely a profitable venture to take up. |
| a profitable venture to take up. One needs to | | | | |