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