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

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

Frank wrote:
> Hell i remember having a 10 dsl's in my house till I needed more.
>
> Got a T1 in my home till i got a 10 mbit in the house.. was costing 10k a
> month to uunet + 10k a month local loop to bell.
>
> T1 was 2500 a month + 2500 local loop..
>
>
> Then I decided to get office space. 
>
> Cost 2000$ per month 3000sq ft
> 4$ local loop -> a bit sized 1/4 inch at canadien tire.. ( hole in wall
> trough my office to uunet ) was the neighbour.
> + the 10k to uunet 
>
> TOTAL : 12000$ per month.. savings : 8000 + got an office ;)
>
> Then I got 2 gig sonnet with metronet fiber @ 15k a month.
>
>  
> REAL MAFIA is bell not cotroni's
>   
I know. But from bell I can get clear channel DS-3 local loop just for 
$2700 per month.
45 Mbit from MCI Canada will probably costs 45*$250 = $11250.
Still quite expensive.

Probably it will be cheaper lease the fiber to USA =)

>
> ;)
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Sergey Kuznetsov
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:22 AM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] VoicePulse pricing encourages large number
> ofaccounts was: VoicePulse engaged in very dubious business practices
>
> Nice prices you have there in US.
>
> We have $300 per Mb here in Canada =(
>
> All the Best!
> Sergey.
>
>
>
> Paul wrote:
>   
>> alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Paul wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> I get that $6000 price for a 100mps feed at 2 data centers I use. If I
>>>> approach that level I would certainly shop for a better deal. One option
>>>> is to buy directly from a bandwidth provider that is already feeding the
>>>> facility and pay the data center $50/month for the cross-connect. I will
>>>> point out that the $6000/month price has no setup costs. I just send an
>>>> email or make a phone call and I have it within a few hours.
>>>>    
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> You should price better. At this day and age, you should expect 30$/mbit
>>> or slightly less at commits of this size in a decent facility from decent
>>> carriers.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> I would hope to get that type of rate and have it handed to me via
>> ethernet. I have had many setup fees waived for myself and my clients
>> the last few years. I would hope to get the same treatment on a 100mps
>>     
> feed.
>   
>> Anyway, that cuts the cost per 64k to $1.875 a month. Of course there
>> will be people who insist on ulaw over sip or untrunked iax2. I always
>> find it amazing that people would expect to get reliability and quality
>> at $2.50 a month per channel.
>>
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