[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, alex at pilosoft.com <alex at pilosoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > No, he's right. 60$/mbit *is* cost per rate, because bandwidth is usually
> > billed based on 95th percentile. In other words, if you sell 23 concurrent
> > channels, it is reasonable to expect that at least 5% of time, 20+
> > channels will be in use, and thus you would be obligated to pay for
> > roughly 1Mbit of IP transit capacity.
> 
> I'm afraid you both are wrong.  A megabit is 1,000,000 bits or
> approximately 125,000 bytes--data volume.  He *meant* to say "megabit
> per second", a rate measurement.  Telco sales droids may call a T1 a
> "1.554 megabit" connection, it is a "1.554 megabit-per-second"
> connection.
sweet jebus, is it going to come to that? This is a telecom industry
mailing list. If someone doesn't recognize that "60$/mbit" really means
"60$/mbit/second" - they should be flipping frigging burgers, not posting
here.

> > 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.
*plonk*