[Asterisk-biz] Stumped on LD questions......

[Alex Pui]

I think the asterisk server is easy enough to switch over the provider if 
anyone is not your choice in the future, why bother to have them good 
enough to do the job for now and in the future which might cost more? I 
might miss your point.

Alex

At 20:47 2005-1-21 -0500, Paul wrote:
>programming dept wrote:
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>>L3 is certainly not the least expensive choice.
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>What intrigues me so far is the wide range of prices I see for origination 
>and termination. It looks like the range narrows as you grow into higher 
>volumes. I am testing providers who require upfront minimums that range 
>from $5 to $16. The US48 rates vary from .013 to .039 and I don't yet see 
>any gain in quality or reliability for paying the higher rates. Funny 
>thing is that you would expect the provider with a higher upfront minimum 
>to give you the better rates but it is exactly the opposite with the 3 I 
>am referring to here.
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>Origination providers are equally confusing. A typical statement from 
>support people is something like "We allow multiple simultaneous calls but 
>we might limit that in the future." I can understand that they still need 
>to get the software to the point where it will limit that. In the meantime 
>they should go ahead and clearly state what will be allowed at what price. 
>I want to know upfront what it will cost if my customer grows to the point 
>where he needs to allow up to 12 incoming calls at a time. I can't place 
>him with a provider that only charges $2/month for an "unlimited" local 
>DID, currently allows lots of simultaneous calls but reserves the right to 
>limit it to one someday and can't decide what he will charge people who 
>need more than that.
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>I am trying to encourage a provider to address this need. Some of us 
>lower-volume users need to know exactly where we and our customers stand. 
>I'm sure there are lots of sohos who can get by just fine with * connected 
>to an ata from vonage and a pots line. It might be a few more years before 
>they need to have a number hunt across more than 2 lines and it might be 
>at least that long before they would use enough minutes to get kicked off 
>the (NOT REALLY) unlimited soho plan. The rest of us need to see something 
>sane and concrete in a rate plan. Still waiting.
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