[asterisk-biz] India Route Available

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 20:58 -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:
> What about domestic US48 routes where the call is legal to terminate, 
> but where the ANI / CLID must be obscured so that the carrier into which 
> the call terminates and the ILEC through whose tandem the call transits 
> does not actually realise that the call is out-of-state / inter-LATA, 
> because the ICA of the carrier doing the termination is intra-LATA 
> bill-and-keep and/or settlement-free?  Would that be a "grey" route?
> 
> Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> > Grey is somewhere in between, its shady but not overtly illegal and the
> > quality can be sketchy.  These can also vanish instantly without
> > warning.  Some times its just an abuse of a stupid carrier who will
> > figure things out at some point, and sometimes they use clever games to
> > reduce the price of the call through methods that may not always work.
> > 

I would consider that in the "clever games" category, even though its
not really clever :)  but that is just me.  Anytime trickery is used to
get a lower rate I consider it grey.


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