[Asterisk-biz] Caller ID name propagation

[Paul]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

>On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Paul wrote:
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>>What type of costs associated with CNAM lookup? A broadvoice BYOD lite
>>DID is $5.95/month. There may be even cheaper offerings with CNAM.  
>>Lookups have to be done even if the call is not answered. I'm just
>>curious about the risks these providers are taking when they offer the
>>feature.
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>If you are doing ~10M queries/month, price is 0.0025$/query (0.25c)
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>Which adds up...
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So if I have a DID that costs 20c/day and I get calls from 100 different 
numbers every day, the provider loses money. If the calls are not 
answered, there are still 100 queries per day to pay for. It's a good 
thing they don't charge consumers for usage. I'm sure glad I don't pay 
per query for dns.