[Asterisk-biz] Inbound Costs (Was: Canadian Toll Free DID / Local 514 DID)

[Justin B.Newman]

On Jul 28, 2004, at 2:11 AM, Tracy R Reed wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:10:39AM -0400, Jeremy McNamara spake thusly:
>> Most certainly.  You don't pay per minute for incoming calls on your
>> POTS line do you?  Nor do you with NuFone's regular DIDs.
>
> Easy to do when you can only give out DIDs in the one area in which you
> have a presence.

Binhost has been spending lots of time considering this with our new 
IAX/SIP offering.  As I've been working with providers outside of our 
current location (DC) (and outside of areas where we expect to have a 
physical presence), I've generally resisted opportunities that are 
based upon inbound minute costs.  Sure, it's more difficult ... but 
inbound minute costs should be limited to bandwidth costs.

If you're buying from a LEC, they get PAID to terminate the calls to 
you.  Because of that, all you really should be paying for is the 
bandwidth necessary to get the calls from their CO to your gateway (SIP 
gateway, * box, or ___).  Why should I pay them to do something that 
they get PAID by others to do?

-jbn