[asterisk-biz] Free DIDs

[Alex Balashov]

Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:

> How do regulated telecom companies get away with blocking anything else 
> like International, Toll, and 900/976 numbers?  Could a carrier just as 
> easily play a message saying "this number not included in your 
> 'unlimited' plan" and then complete the call at per min rates?

No, they have to deliver the call.

One thing you have to keep in mind is that smaller, intra-LATA LECs (as 
opposed to the national CLECs/IXCs) pass LD traffic to IXCs of one sort 
or another, and that's who actually gets billed the access.  So, the LEC 
might itself have a blended or decked rate from the IXC and can price a 
derivative of that.

Trunking customers cherry-picking expensive rate centers from a plan 
offered them retail as blended is a big problem, though.

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