[asterisk-biz] Dear Termination Providers,

[Alexander Harrowell]

On Friday 01 May 2009 15:52:44 Tim Panton wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2009, at 21:03, Peter Beckman wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Miles Scruggs wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> >  That's ok -- don't publish it!  But when I'm your customer, I want
> > your
> >  rates, all of them, in a computer-digestable format, and easily
> > updatable.
> >  If you are giving me a flat rate, I want to see that in the rate
> > deck.  If
> >  you want to publish something different to the public, great!  But
> > as a
> >  customer, I want the full rate deck for EVERY destination
> > supported, so I
> >  don't have to manually update the rates you left out because you
> > didn't
> >  consider the US worthy of inclusion.
> >
> >  I understand some do full npanxx, but most I deal with (I'm a small
> > fry
> >  compared to your 1M minutes per day) give me a flat blended rate,
> > and I
> >  want to know what I can and cannot terminate to and at what cost.
>
> Teliax have (had?) this web service that you can call with a number
> and it returns the rate in xml.
>
> They also publish their rates as csv files so you can import them.
>
> Tim.

Isn't there a need for a Web service here? 

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