[asterisk-biz] Free DIDs

[Pascal Bruno]

True, a friend of mine experienced that. His vonage service was  
suspended for excessive use.  Even he had an "unlimited" plan.

Sent from my iPod

On Aug 16, 2009, at 11:34 AM, randulo <spamsucks2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting thread! With regard to the use of 'unlimited':
>
> Wengo's TOS in the early days when they offered unlimited SIP calling
> at 7 euros per month did not state a number of minutes but had a
> sentence difficult to translate into English, but meaning something
> like this:
>
> "If you are using more minutes than the average person, we reserve  
> the right..."
>
> The idea was actually clear: no heavy business use, no large family of
> glandular-age girls on the phone all day, etc. IIRC, they cut off
> calls after two hours as well, probably for the teen-aged girls
> referred to previously.
>
> Today, as you all know, 'unlimited' never means anything other than
> "limited to an arbitrary amount of resource usage that we can
> reconcile with our business plan". IOW, service providers need to make
> money on the accounts, not just provide a service.
>
> If you ever heard anything else in 'unlmited', you probably also think
> the $99 iPhone is a steal. Which it is. For AT&T.
>
> And what about unlimited dialing to 50 countries? Presumably a French
> operator like <spit> Orange has to pay to terminate a call to the USA?
> They *must* have limits.
>
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