[Asterisk-biz] Call termination database

[Alistair Cunningham]

Linus,

I agree that this would be useful. I've got a field in the database for 
currency, but am not planning to use it for version 1. The problem is 
not doing the currency conversions; these are easy. The problem updating 
conversion rates. I really don't want to have to enter data by hand 
every day.

Does anyone know of a good source for daily automated downloads for 
currency conversions? If I can get this sorted, multiple currencies 
could go in version 1.1.

Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
Telephony, Database, Unix consulting worldwide
+44 (0)7870 699 479
http://integrics.com/


Linus Surguy wrote:
>> Alistair Cunningham wrote:
>>
>>> Duane,
>>>
>>> Yes, this is exactly what I had in mind. I've made a start on this
>>> today. So far so good, and the only gotcha so far is handling different
>>> currencies. For version 1, there's probably only going to be one
>>> currency, most likely USD.
>>
>>
>> While most minor start-ups may only offer local currency, most
>> transactions would be available in USD at a guess...
> 
> 
> That depends on their target market, we are switching large numbers of 
> international minutes and trade only in GBP, others only in EUR - there 
> may be quite a large North American bias, but it is not as all inclusive 
> as you may think.
> 
> However, if you reduce currency to USD, EUR and GBP you will have 99% of 
> the providers covered, and then it would be an easy process to display 
> any rate in all three currencies.
> 
> Of course, to be truely meaningful for any carrier trying maintain 
> quality, instead of just purchasing at the cheapest price you then start 
> to need to classify routes by ASR, codecs, technology, IP distance etc. 
> and the whole thing gets a lot more complicated!
> 
> Linus
> 
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