[Asterisk-biz] Best carrier hotel and telco to team up with?

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Sun, 22 May 2005, InternetMarketingMan2001 wrote:

> If you had to go into competition originating and terminating minutes
> for profit, what carrier hotel and telco would you use?
>
> I've heard about One Wilshire, in LA and 60 Hudson st. in NY.  I've also
> been told that XO would be able to provide the largest footprint of
> did's.
That's correct. Both of those *buildings* have one of largest presence of
voice carriers. Now, each building has a large selection of *facilities*
where you can be present. TelX seems to be the place to be in 60H, but
they are not without downsides. If you are throwing your lot with XO
anyway, you might as well colo in XO's own facility in 60 Hudson (13th
floor) - they are far cheaper than TelX. We are both in XO facility and in 
TelX and have our own fiber between those.

If you are going into *serious business* and not just asterisk-biz
lemonade-stand one, you don't ask "what telco would you use" - you *are*
the telco. You would use LCR and buy from whoever gives you cheapest rates 
on the broken-out termination.

> Let's assume that you're a small timer and have to fork over margin to a
> telco to connect in one spot, and let them handle your did acquisitions
> and termination to the pstn.  (as upposed to setting up you own
> contracts and gateways in every lata you want to be able to originate
> from.)
There's nobody who has decent pricing on origination unless you have huge 
volume. As far as termination, XO does have one of lowest price/volume 
ratios.

-alex