[asterisk-biz] Dear Termination Providers,

[Miles Scruggs]

I think you maybe shocked to see what a full rate deck actually looks  
like. A complete deck (if it is competitive) can be upwards of 300,000  
lines.  If you have a termination provider that is selling US 48 at a  
flat rate with no restrictions they either aren't doing it to every  
market, or it is way over priced.   (If anyone out there wants to  
terminate the US 48 with no restrictions for $0.01/min I have a little  
over 1,000,000 per day to send you)

What really gets me is all the different ways that international is  
done, and the fact that most sheets give you names instead of dialing  
codes.  Names are next to useless when trying to rate a call and every  
carrier has a different name for each dialing code compared to the  
next carrier out there.  In short being competitive with your rates,  
and billing calls isn't not trivial which is why some billing software  
alone runs upwards of $100,000.

None of these are great reasons for not publishing a deck, but the  
average person buying termination doesn't want to bother with a  
300,000 line long rate deck.

Cheers,

Miles
On Apr 24, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Peter Beckman wrote:

> For the love of god and all that is holy, why do you not include  
> your US
> rates in your ratesheets?  I don't care that each customer gets a  
> different
> rate, if you can terminate calls worth your salt, you can hire  
> someone to
> write a script that includes the rate for the customer in your rate  
> sheets.
> It's fine if one has to get the rate sheet via a URL like this:
>
>     http://www.example.com/dynamic_rates.php?username=xxx&password=xxx&format=csv
>
> (Bonus -- If I'm logged into your site, username/password isn't  
> required!)
>
> I don't mind!  I don't even mind if I have to sign up for free to  
> GET your
> A-Z rates!  I _DO_ mind having to update US rates by hand while I can
> automate the updating of rates using your published rate sheet!
>
> The United States is a country too -- stop thinking about all the  
> other
> countries separately from your A-Z rate sheet and leaving out the US
> because it is, for you, not International.  You can't know what your
> customer thinks is International!
>
> So do me a favor -- figure out how to publish your rates on a per- 
> customer
> basis, so we can automatically update rates from your site, and so  
> that we
> can maybe even automatically send you more traffic when you put a
> destination on sale!
>
> Beckman
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> Peter Beckman                                                   
> Internet Guy
> beckman at angryox.com                                 http://www.angryox.com/
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