[Asterisk-biz] Porting Fees

[Matt]

I just wondered what the going rate was.... one of the CLECs we are
looking to do business with wanted to charge us $2.00 a month PER
ported number!  They claimed this was standard!   While we are on the
subject.. what is the standard rate per month for DID blocks?  They
are offering $13.00 one time fee for 20 numbers... bad/good?

On 6/29/05, Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 12:34 pm, Daryl Sanders wrote:
> > I have seen mostly a one time charge of around $25. I would
> > personally stay away from anyone wanting to charge a monthly fee.
> 
> Exactly.  Equally disturbing (to me personally) are companies that build
> this sort of thing into their monthly fees.  If they have a high
> customer churn rate, then they dont recover their porting costs.  Or,
> if you're a long term customer then you end up paying for it many times
> over (or worse, paying for the churn).  The same goes for "unlimited"
> plans that have the low-usage customers paying for the high-usage
> customers that haven't hit the limits on the "unlimited" plans yet.
> 
> I know that many customers don't get past up-front fees, but still, I
> personally would prefer to know that a company that I'm dealing with is
> making a reasonable profit at each step of the way and not likely to
> evaporate into a bankruptcy court hearing.  Especially if they're
> holding my ported home number.
> 
> That's why I like (for example) one of Teliax's plan models where I can
> pay by the minute, pay by the DID and pay for special things like a
> porting fee or an hourly support rate for truly special support items.
> At least, I *hope* they're making a profit at each step of the way.
> 
> > On 6/29/05, Matt <mhoppes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Does anyone know what a "Standard" porting charge is for porting a
> > > number to a phone company (as the VoIP provider?).   IE.. is it
> > > normally a recurring monthly charge for each ported number?   Is it
> > > normally a one time port charge (for administrative work, etc)?
> > > If so.. how much... what has been everyone's experience here?
> 
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