[Asterisk-biz] Re: USA Termination

[Matthew Simpson]

> From: Matt Klein <mklein at nmedia.net>

> So, if I send all of my Tier 2 and 6 traffic to you for .0075, you'll take
> it?
>
> -m

I was waiting for you or Alex to chime in with that.  If you're not buying 
from an IXC like Qwest or Global crossing you can get rates at 0.005 and 
below for all tiers, including NECA.  The interconnect cost is 0.003 or 
less, so selling at 0.005 or 0.0075 would be profitable.

We offer 90,000 NPA/NXX for 0.005, prepaid, 100,000 minute minimum.  There 
are many NPA/NXX that are NECA / Indy included in the list.  Obviously these 
are areas where we have direct end office trunking and are not simply 
reselling a Qwest or Global.   see http://www.txlink.net/rates/latest.txt 
for current list, we add about 10,000 npa/nxx every two weeks.

You can go out and buy foreign<-->US settlement traffic for 0.006 through 
0.015 blended that includes NECA all day long.

Furthermore, Global Crossing [and I'm sure others] has silently been buying 
CLEC routes at 0.003 or less and then reselling them as IXC routes, and they 
are just keeping the "CABS", so if you're buying on that out-dated model you 
might as well sell your VoIP infrastructure and go back to TDM.  :D

I know it can suck to be a "wholesaler" out there reselling IXC routes and 
get hit with the new VoIP guys selling below your "cost", but if you're 
still buying and selling on the old TDM model, you'd better be selling to 
end-users, because nobody else will pay those prices for routes.  Our 
company is glad to see more VoIP wholesalers out there, if someone's cheaper 
than we are, we'll buy from them, and it's just better for the industry all 
around.

Level3 is about to announce that they are going to stop reselling 
Qwest/Global type traffic and go to the direct end-office trunking model, so 
I would expect prices in this area to drop even further as the big boys 
start to get into this market.

Yours,
Matthew Simpson
TxLink Communications
http://www.txlink.net/