[asterisk-biz] Experimental/new VoIP rate search engine.

[Kristian Kielhofner]

On 1/5/09, Nitzan Kon <nk3569 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> OK, here's some statistics for the month of December for
>  the carrier in question:
>
>  Our record shows:
>  100,504 calls
>  130,740:27 minutes total
>
>  Their record shows:
>  100,161 calls (probably just time difference here
>  179,811.28 minutes total
>
>  Their record shows total rate charged $229 higher than what
>  our billing system determined we SHOULD have been charged.
>  In other words- $229 extra have been charged due to signaling
>  problems - and this is just one month.
>
>  I used to ask them for refunds for these but to be honest it's
>  such a PITA that I just gave up and started routing most of
>  our traffic to other carriers.
>
>  Bad billing is bad for business no matter how great your
>  call quality is. :)
>
>
>  -- Nitzan

Time to start fulfilling my New Year's Resolution... ;)

How much does your bandwidth cost?  Around here (Tampa, FL - carrier
neutral facility, no loop) we pay (on average) about $100/MB.  10MB
minimums, multiple upstreams, other random fees and you are at
thousands of dollars.

Of course the per MB price goes down as volume goes up but that
doesn't really help the argument, does it?

The only reason we have this connectivity is because we have to handle
the media sometimes because the media is here (conferencing,
voicemail, etc).  If I were only handling SIP orig/term traffic to my
carriers I'd just get some fairly reliable blend from someone in the
facility and pay /maybe/ $200 total.

Of course I could go ultra cheap and just get a slice on a Xen box
somewhere.  As long as I'm not handling media it shouldn't matter that
much!

-- 
Kristian Kielhofner
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