[asterisk-biz] "on-net" dialplans

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 07:19 +0100, Andy Davidson wrote:
> On 6 Apr 2008, at 23:23, Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> 
> > I never used the word 'free' by itself, I instead intentionally used  
> > terms like "super cheap next to free".  I never intended for anyone  
> > to think that actually meant free, specifically since I did not say  
> > that.
> 
> That's fine.  I was presenting the advantages of mass-interconnection  
> as I see them.  You'll note that pricing didn't come into any of my  
> plus-points.  I think this means we effectively we are in agreement,  
> so don't be upset.

didnt realize I was, I will be more careful next time to not get upset
when giving an explanation.  Again, I am sorry for getting upset, as you
can see from what I said I really let you have it, and that just isnt
fair to you.  

However, we arent in complete agreement since many phone companies are
going to a "bill and keep" method, which generally does completely
counter what you said when you were "correcting" me saying that I said
that it was free.  

For about a decade SBC has been trying to push that as the default,
unless of course you are pushing more traffic to them, their
interconnection agreement (as in phone company to phone company
agreement) gives them 30 day outs to bill you, but you do not have the
same privilege.  Quite biased if you ask me, although you dont have to
take that agreement it just becomes more costly and takes considerably
longer to get some other deal.

This is also not just a US thing, BT in the UK does a voip interconnect
where they pay for minutes they terminate onto your network, you pay for
ones that you terminate, and generally you are required to have more or
less symmetric traffic so it ends up being free.  The symmetric traffic
rule is why they dont do this as a wholesale product, oftel/ofcom
wouldnt like that too much there, but they offer it as a retail one so
they can do that.

But hey if you do have symmetric traffic at least your UK calling is
free right?

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