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

[Paul]

For termination I already do that on my test system. I have 4 providers 
and if one is down the call goes through the next one in the list even 
if it costs more. For origination it's not the same because you don't 
want to keep changing numbers or keep porting them to different 
providers. My understanding is that incoming wholesale cost is much less 
than the .009 Michael mentioned in another reply(at least here in the 
US). Somebody will start offering it at that price and smart people like 
myself will advise the customers to go that way and forget about 
"unlimited" offerings.

So my point is that I certainly don't want to start advertising "leased, 
not owned" DID numbers unless I can count on sane and sensible rates for 
using them. I want to know in advance what my cost will be for 1 
min/month or 1 million min/month on this number. No mystery, please.

Alex Pui wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>> L3 is certainly not the least expensive choice.
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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