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

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Christopher Snell wrote:

> On 6/2/06, Paul <ast2005 at 9ux.com> wrote:
> 
> > By the way, I am looking for consulting work these days. Besides my
> > hardware and software skills, you can now see that I also know how to
> > do some simple math. Anybody looking for a linux geek who also knows
> > how to do things like break-even analysis should contact me offlist.
> 
> You're joking, right?  You quoted $60/month per megabit, which is a
> cost-per-volume measurement, not a cost-per-rate measurement.  You're
> going to have to do better than that if you want a job doing cost
> analysis.  :)
No, he's right. 60$/mbit *is* cost per rate, because bandwidth is usually 
billed based on 95th percentile. In other words, if you sell 23 concurrent 
channels, it is reasonable to expect that at least 5% of time, 20+ 
channels will be in use, and thus you would be obligated to pay for 
roughly 1Mbit of IP transit capacity.

You going to have to do better than that if you want to do mailing list 
criticism.