Main portion of the advantages of the Asterisk server appears from it being an open source downloadable product. Most of the users, especially business people, can find it difficult to understand the idea behind this principle, or free software, but a business models behind open source are different and specific, as in case with Asterisk server.
Orpheum offers its iVoice (SIP trunking) and hPBX (Hosted/Virtual PBX) services exclusively to businesses in the USA and Canada. Both services start at $25 per month.