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

[Christopher Snell]

On 6/2/06, alex at pilosoft.com <alex at pilosoft.com> wrote:

> 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.

I'm afraid you both are wrong.  A megabit is 1,000,000 bits or
approximately 125,000 bytes--data volume.  He *meant* to say "megabit
per second", a rate measurement.  Telco sales droids may call a T1 a
"1.554 megabit" connection, it is a "1.554 megabit-per-second"
connection.

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

I suggest you do some reading on Wikipedia.

Chris