[asterisk-biz] Free DIDs

[Alex Balashov]

Where did you get this estimate?

> Just to expand on this a little bit, in a slightly new direction.
> Verizon estimates that it will make $600,000,000 this year off of "extra
> options" in voice mail prompts.  By expanding the voice mail menu
> options (1 for urgent 2 to page, etc) and doing everything possible to
> make sure that people stay on the phone for as long as possible they are
> eating minutes off this.
>
> Now verizon does not make a whole lot on people calling other verizon
> customers, after all they give free calling to "in network" numbers.  So
> where does this $600M come from?
>
> The only place that Verizon can bill for air time that is not in network
> is if the caller is from a different telephone carrier, and since they
> are not premium numbers this is access charges (for non US/CA people
> mobiles and landlines are billed about the same here unlike most of the
> rest of the world).
>
> Basically the callers telephone company is paying for that, which
> ultimately the caller does by way of a monthly subscription charge or a
> per minute charge if the call is not local.
>
> This is all off of 15-30 seconds of extra calling time per call at
> probably the FCC cap of $0.007/minute (I think that cap applies to CMRS
> providers).  It sure does take a whole lot of those calls to reach
> $600M, which far exceeds any conferencing, or even what futurephone was
> doing.  Add in all the other mobile providers that are doing the same
> thing, and you really start to see a huge amount of money that no one is
> really complaining about.
>
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