[asterisk-biz] UK mobile routes needed

[Steve Kennedy]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:43:10PM -0000, Linus Surguy wrote:

> Be careful what you ask for. Mobile termination rates in the UK are 
> regulated. If you are paying below cost for them, (and these routes are out 
> there), you are either getting illegal 'GSM Gateway' routes or routes that 
> are being resold again and again and end up with someone taking a loss on a 
> blended rate. Neither fall into the category of 'quality'.
> If quality is important, ask your potential providers if they terminate 
> direct into the mobile networks, or via British Telecom.

You can still get decent mobile rates from outside the UK if you use a
big supplier as they'll interconnect with BT and therefore get a blended
rate (as stated above) which means BT give an average price for UK
termination and take a hit for mobile calls while they make money on
geographic numbers.

This works fine as long as your originating number is in the same
country as the provider offering the service as BT wont be able to
differentiate them from normal numbers.

Where things get unstuck is when companies trombone or jump from country
to country as regulations mean the originating CLI must be passed, so BT
now just seperate the non-direct originated calls and charge normal
mobile termination rates for these.

In the UK several companies used to send calls out to an EU country then
bounce them back in on blended rates, but that's all but stopped.


Steve

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