[asterisk-biz] Free DIDs

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:27 -0700, randulo wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Trixter aka Bret
> McDanel<trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 08:34 -0700, randulo wrote:
> >> Today, as you all know, 'unlimited' never means anything other than
> >> "limited to an arbitrary amount of resource usage that we can
> >> reconcile with our business plan". IOW, service providers need to make
> >> money on the accounts, not just provide a service.
> 
> > that is not true, that is only true from providers that want to lie to
> > customers and claim they are unlimited when they have no intention of
> > providing what they advertise.
> 
> You're missing one thing: "unlimited" is totally impossible to prove,
> ever, by definition, except using infinity as a factor, so I stand by
> my definition. :) Unlimited is like saying "the most beautiful...",
> it's unprovable.



I disagree, if you can place calls every minute of every day for the
entire month and not be shut off or threatened with service termination,
then it is unlimited.

I have seen t-mobile paperwork at one point that listed the number of
minutes available for their nights and weekends plan which exceeded the
number of minutes in any month of the year including holidays -
basically making it impossible to ever run over.  I know people that
have made calls on t-mobile with 6-way and others with t-mobile with
3-way (where that was the max they could do) and boost with 3-way and
used every minute of the month on the phone and not been disconnected. 

I think that qualifies as unlimited.

Now to prove that unlimited does have limits with some providers, there
are many many providers that will shut  you off well before that even
though they advertise unlimited.  Take skype, they say unlimited in
their marketing materials and 10,000 minutes per month (a finite limit).
If there is any type of "fair use" agreement then it is not unlimited,
it is in fact the opposite of unlimited.

I think anything approaching 40,000 minutes per channel (just under 24/7
for a month) should qualify even if its short by a couple thousand
minutes.  
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