Amen to that. The cost of maintaining a realiable DID that approaches five-nines in reliability is significantly higher than $2 per month no matter how you twist it. While L3 does charge per minute, some carriers chose to sell you channels. Resellers of those carriers turn around and oversell those channels with $2 per month DIDs. Frequently these shops will take a shortcut elsewhere too, which will most definetely affect reliability. In most situations they get away with it but that very minute when you really need to get thru, you won't be able to and then you'll understand why some services cost most than others.
<br><br>In my book the whole "VoIP is cheap" is a major misconception. VoIP is more convinient, flexible and more powerful when done right. It becomes cheap when someone cuts a corner and skips a very important step. If you're willing to lower your standards than you'll be okay with $2 DID which almost always works.
<br><br>ScriptHead <br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:alex@pilosoft.com">alex@pilosoft.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:alex@pilosoft.com">alex@pilosoft.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Matt wrote:<br><br>> No way. I'm paying for that DID, and I expect a channel to be there.
<br>> I also don't expect to pay for inbound minutes. Level3 does not charge<br>> me for inbound minutes! My CLEC does not charge me for inbound minutes!<br>> VERIZON Does not charge me for inbound minutes. So, just stop charging
<br>> for inbound minutes already!<br>Whatever you are smoking, please share with the group.<br><br>Yes, (3) *does* charge for inbound minutes.<br><br>In the end, PRIs/IMTs and ports on your softswitch cost *money*. If
<br>someone is dumb enough to give a DID without per-minute inbound and with<br>unlimited number of channels, they will get what they deserve - a calling<br>card operation which will take DS3 worth of channels and pay 10$ for a
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