[asterisk-biz] VoicePulse pricing encourages large number of accounts was: VoicePulse engaged in very dubious business practices

[sales department]

Mike,

Our wholesale price per DID is $5 which comes with two channels of unlimited
incoming calls.  If you need more channels then the cost is $2.50 per
channel.  We don't charge for outgoing channels.  We make that up in the
wholesale per minute cost.  I wonder if you are mistaking Voice Pulse's
pricing on this?

<robb>

on 6/2/06 1:59 PM, Mike Fedyk at mfedyk at mikefedyk.com wrote:

> They charge $11 per DID with a limit of 4 concurrent calls per account.
> If you want to increase that, it is $20/mo per additional concurrent
> call, so it becomes $31/mo to have 5 concurrent calls available.  This
> encourages having each DID in a separate account.  Which makes managing
> all of the accounts harder.
> 
> Also, if you have a DID, each outbound call uses a channel that could be
> used for incoming calls.  If you use all channels for outbound, you
> won't receive any calls from the DID.  I have not used their service so
> I don't know if they have done something to make having a lot of
> accounts easy, but after looking at their pricing, I can understand why
> he had a lot of accounts.
> 
> I don't understand the logic of the limit of concurrent calls.  If you
> are charging per minute (and they do for outbound calls) why not allow
> use of as many channels as requested and make money on the minutes?
> 
> I am not trying to attack anyone, but I would like to see if VoicePulse
> has a response to this, and possibly change their pricing so they won't
> have an incentive to have limits on calls.

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