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

[Paul]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Paul wrote:
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>If you can't tell the difference in reliability, you are not their target 
>client. My clients can tell the difference between 99% ASR and 90% ASR, 
>and between faxes working 100% of time and 90% of time.
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What I mean is that so far with limited testing I don't see much 
difference except price. I can move this to a good unloaded T-1 at night 
and conduct further tests. Right now I am mostly using these accounts 
for testing/development purposes. I wouldn't go live with anybody 
without running some real tests.

>Its kind of hard to make a workable pricing model in this day and age, but 
>I agree with your sentiment. There's no such thing as unlimited, whether 
>it is termination or origination or...
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For sure! One provider sells DID's for $8/month and allows up to 4 
simultaneous calls. I figure that an active business with normal weekday 
hours will easily use 10k minute/month because they always have at least 
1 incoming call active. But then you have to consider the fact that 
outbound is handled differently so maybe this could be used for a 
business that currently has 8 total pots lines. I would expect to see 
cases where people are using this $8 product and averaging more like 30k 
minutes without extending business hours. You can't expect the provider 
to tolerate that. If the law is not on his side about the way he uses 
the word "unlimited", he will have to totally eliminate the "unlimited" 
plans from his product portfolio. I am not talking about usage types 
that are usually mentioned in the fine print. This could be a normal 
local family-owned retail or service business.

I suppose the next thing the scammers will try is to use the word 
"unlimited" in the banners and then put things in the fine print like 
"unless your business is doing so good that the phone rings often" ...