Telecommunications to the world

The world of telecommunications is a complicated road to success. Many new comers join this world without having any idea of what is required to be involved in the largest business in the world.

Yes Telecom is the largest business worldwide, comprise by Tier 1 Telco's, like French Telecom, AT&T, Verizon, China telecom, Dutch telecom and comprise as well of tier 2 carriers, VoIP carriers, Broadband carriers and on and on.
Realistically, why would anybody try to enter this world where success is rare and hard to achieve?
In today's world, it has become very easy to purchase a low end VoIP switch, that does not have any needed tools, like LCR, Billing, Fraud prevention to mention a few.

So you now have purchased a low end switch, what to do next?  You must find a colocation space Send your new server or rent one, , pay for bandwidth, Power, Power back up, Ethernet,  Invest in a high end Ethernet switch, a firewall, remember all system should be duplicated to avoid any failures. This means 2 Voip switches, 2 Ethernet switches, basically 2 of everything.

Ah, now is the money part, do you have enough to be in business for at list 6 months to a year?
Do you have any termination providers?
Do you have a business plan?

Who are you going to sale to? Retail, Enterprise, Wholesale, calling cards, IPPBX?
Do you have a marketing budget, if not how are you going to reach and or acquire customers?

The issue is this new comer think this is an easy business, not only that they finally realize is not and try to dump rates to survive, but guess what, you won't, unless you have a solid plan, investment money, and a very good platform, and to do that, you are going to need some money to be able to purchase what you need.

About 400 Voip small companies go out of business each month, majority of this new comer disappear in less than 6 months.

I do recommend you to make sure this is an industry you want to be in, have a solid plan and investment money.

Thank you will have a chance to succeed in the Telecom industry.
I wish all the new comers luck

Patrick