[asterisk-biz] MagicJack

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 10:44 -0600, Mike Diehl wrote:
> On Friday 21 March 2008 12:29:38 pm Nitzan Kon wrote:
> > > Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> > > 	Anyone know any more details? How do they offer $20:year, when
> 
> > They do have CLEC status in some state (all of them?), look up YMAX
> > Corp. So they should be getting some price breaks (and reciprocal
> > revenue?) from that. But I think their main business model is to steal
> > as much customers and start spamming them with ads.
> 
> So how does one get CLEC status?  Say, in only one state?  Just curious.... 
> <evil grin>
> 

you ask very nicely to the state government for permission, oh yeah you
gotta file a bunch of forms as the request, and there are federal
filings that are required as well.  Generally that has to be done first,
then you have to negotiate with other carriers for interconnection, once
you have managed to do all that, and probably filed a few more things,
you may or may not have to pay for an environmental impact study
(california for example requires that) prove that you have a certain
quantity of resources and wont go belly up anytime soon, and now that a
minimum of 9-12 months has passed (usually its longer though) you can
finally get trunks installed and begin testing.  At the end of testing,
and probably 18+ months after you started, many many fees paid to
lawyers and other types, you can be a clec.

Of course this experience varies for each state that you operate in,
some are easier than described some are harder.  CLEC termination fees
are a fraction of a penny in most situations (or bill and keep, meaning
you bill your customers and keep it all, and so does everyone else), so
you probably wont see a return quickly if this is all you plan on doing
with it.


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