[Asterisk-biz] Call termination database 0.1

[Alistair Cunningham]

Richard,

This is a fair point. I'll have a think about this.

Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
Telephony, Database, Unix consulting worldwide
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Richard Bennett wrote:
> On Friday 18 February 2005 22:51, Alistair Cunningham wrote:
> 
>>>Also, the prefix 88745 should also be returned when the user searches for
>>>88.
>>
>>That's not what I had in mind. If a provider puts in 88745, that means
>>that they have a route to that area code, and that area code only. If a
>>visitor then searches for termination to the entire 88 country, they
>>don't want to see 88745, as it's only part of what they want.
>>
>>I'm willing to rethink this if people what some other behaviour. I'm
>>also willing to make it selectable at search time.
> 
> Also ok.
> But the point is, some carriers will list 88 for fixed termination, and 88475 
> for mobile traffic in that same country (Which usually costs more).
> 
> So if the user only got back the rate for 88 when they searched 88, they would 
> think that the carrier charged the 88 rate for all traffic going to that 
> country.
> If they then selected that carrier and started sending mobile traffic to them 
> they could sue you when they got their bill :o)
> 
> Which reminds me, you might want to add some disclaimers...
> 
> Also, if the tool should be really usefull, you could add the rates of 
> companies who don't upload them themselves, but have them on their site 
> yourself, as users will want to find the rates af all the big-name suppliers 
> in there for comparison I think.
> 
> Richard.
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