[asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

[Douglas Garstang]

>Hi Doug,
>
>Quoting Douglas Garstang <dougmig33 at yahoo.com>:
>
>> So, I have a general question.
>>
>> What billing increments do ITSP's who terminate SIP->PSTN normally bill in?
>>
>> We've been using carriers that bill 1/1, and the quality hasn't been 
>> too good, lots of 503's etc. We just started testing with someone 
>> else that offers much better ASR's (they failover internally between 
>> qwest, global crossing etc), but they bill 30/6. According to THEM, 
>> only companies that can't offer top quality routes bill 1/1.
>>
>> What's the deal here? Is this true?
>
>Well unless you are talking to TIER 1 Carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Level3, 
>MCI) you are talking to middle men, who may promise 1/1 but would give 
>a real hard time on ASRs.

We've been using Verizon to terminate to Russia. Their ASR's have been HORRIBLE. They would regularly reject 50% or more of calls during peak times with SIP server side final responses (500+). They informed us they don't offer any sort of SLA's... pretty funny for a tier one carrier. How can you report problems when there is no standard by which to measure quality? Qwest offer SLA's, but it's so damn complicated, we are still trying to understand it.

Doug.







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