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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In my experience: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>30/6 is always Tier 1 TDM </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>6/6 USA</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>60/60 Mexico</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1/1 has always been grey routes that are great one
day, and terrible the next. Damn Lucent and their TNT's :)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Jon</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=dougmig33@yahoo.com href="mailto:dougmig33@yahoo.com">Douglas
Garstang</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com
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Asterisk Discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 28, 2008 2:00
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing
Increments....?</DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,new york,times,serif">>Hi
Doug,<BR>><BR>>Quoting Douglas Garstang <<A
href="mailto:dougmig33@yahoo.com"
ymailto="mailto:dougmig33@yahoo.com">dougmig33@yahoo.com</A>>:<BR>><BR>>>
So, I have a general question.<BR>>><BR>>> What billing increments
do ITSP's who terminate SIP->PSTN normally bill in?<BR>>><BR>>>
We've been using carriers that bill 1/1, and the quality hasn't been
<BR>>> too good, lots of 503's etc. We just started testing with someone
<BR>>> else that offers much better ASR's (they failover internally
between <BR>>> qwest, global crossing etc), but they bill 30/6.
According to THEM, <BR>>> only companies that can't offer top quality
routes bill 1/1.<BR>>><BR>>> What's the deal here? Is this
true?<BR>><BR>>Well unless you are talking to TIER 1 Carriers (AT&T,
Verizon, Level3, <BR>>MCI) you are talking to middle men, who may promise
1/1 but would give <BR>>a real hard time on ASRs.<BR><BR>We've been using
Verizon to terminate to Russia. Their ASR's have been HORRIBLE. They would
regularly reject 50% or more of calls during peak times with SIP server side
final responses (500+). They informed us they don't offer any sort of SLA's...
pretty funny for a tier one carrier. How can you report problems when there is
no standard by which to measure quality? Qwest offer SLA's, but it's so damn
complicated, we are still trying to understand
it.<BR><BR>Doug.<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>
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