[asterisk-biz] Strange request.

[Sahil Gupta]

Basically, what happens is these guys have numbers for expensive countries.

They are usually countries either in Africa or South Pacific Islands.

The idea of the model is to give missed calls to a range of numbers
across the world and hangup upon receiving a connect from the far end.
 They make their money when the B-party decides to call the A-party
number back because they are concerned they will miss an important
call.

Believe it or not there are a number of people doing it.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Mobile Wi.Fi <asterisk-biz at mobile-wi.fi> wrote:
> Hello Sahil,
>
> What is Audiotext numbers?
>
> On 2012-10-13 13:54, Sahil Gupta wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like someone is generating calls to Audiotext numbers.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Mobile Wi.Fi
>> <asterisk-biz at mobile-wi.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Recently I have a strange request from a customer which whats an account
>>> just for making calls for 1 or 2 seconds :)
>>> but a daily traffic of 30000 calls per day all over the world. I have 2
>>> problems with this:
>>>
>>> 1.) At this type of traffic how can I correctly charge them because
>>> there's
>>> some providers where this type of calls will be charged as an 1 minute
>>> call.
>>> 2.) Is obviously that i must activate concurrent calls on customer
>>> account
>>> to be able to archive 30000 requests per day, but our services is
>>> pre-payed
>>> and I want to deactivate account when the customer finished the amount of
>>> allowed calls.
>>> 3.) As they want world wide access can somebody recommend me how can i
>>> make
>>> conveyable fixed per minute rate in context of variable cost per
>>> different
>>> destinations. I presume i must make a flat rate based on weighted average
>>> formula adapted at your volume of call traffic. Do you use some tools to
>>> archive this type of request?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Regards,
>>> Mobile-Wi.Fi Team
>>>
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>



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Regards,


Sahil Gupta
Director

Tigercom Pte. Limited
998 Toa Payoh North #07-22/23
Singapore 318993