[Asterisk-biz] LiveVoip Multi Channel PBX City Plan

[Preston Garrison]

Well I highly doubt Qwest is going out of business any time soon, and 
they are one of the peoples that can provide that.  If Qwest went out 
of business we all are in trouble.  But then again when you own both 
ends of most routes, its not very hard to make the pricing whatever you 
want.

Preston Garrison
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-----Original Message-----
From: alex at pilosoft.com
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion 
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:37:20 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] LiveVoip Multi Channel PBX City Plan

[first, fix your mail client to do proper quoting]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Preston Garrison wrote:

<snip>
> Like i said in my last email, i certainly don't.. and are not only
> using pris, but have quotes on my desk for PRIs in 20 new markets.

> > I know plenty of people that will :)
>> That's insane. First large calling card customer who tries to use 
that
>> platform will make you either go bankrupt or run out of ports. It is
>> just like providing unlimited LD on a PRI - you either will go 
bankrupt
>> or you will end up redefining word unlimited.
>
> Like i said i know plenty of people :)
There are plenty of companies with unsustainable business models (in 
other
words, business models where there is a certain class of customers on
which you lose money). There are number of options how that will go:  a)
either company will go bankrupt, b) it makes far more from profitable
customers than it loses on unprofitable or c) the business plan will
change to correct the imbalance.

There's nothing wrong with buying from carrier knowing that they are
losing money on the deal. I do that often enough. However, you cannot 
base
*your own* business plan on the ability to get services below their 
cost!

In other words, if there's a carrier who provides all-you-can-eat 
outbound
PRIs for 1000$/month (i've been told there are crazy people like that), 
I
wouldn't base my business plan on the effective cost of 0.1c per 
minute.
However, I would buy from them, and save money while they are in 
business.
;)

-alex

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