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On Aug 16, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel <trixter at 0xdecafbad.com 
 > wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 19:54 -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:
>> Trunking customers cherry-picking expensive rate centers from a plan
>> offered them retail as blended is a big problem, though.
>>
>
> sorta that is what Audiotext v AT&T was about, granted it was actual
> arbitrage, the FCC said that if you want a ratio you have to actually
> put that into a contract or tariff.  AT&T did not put a ratio on  
> traffic
> to the UK, and audiotext only called 7xx PNS numbers for profit.  AT&T
> got upset because they were losing money since Audiotext did not  
> follow
> some ratio they said in court documents they expected but never made  
> as
> part of the deal.
>
>
> This type of cherry picking is what caused some flat rate providers to
> tank a couple years ago.  People would get every deck rate they could
> and one or more flat rate providers.  Anything less than the flat rate
> would go decked anything more would obviously go out the flat rate
> provider, which means that its likely the flat rate provider lost  
> money
> on every call.  Most of them wanted or expected some ratio but never
> actually said it to the customers.
>
> Even settlements between large telcos can have similar situations.   
> MCI
> and Deutche Telecom have a deal (or had at least) where instead of  
> cash
> they would swap minute for minute.  MCI got kinda upset when they
> terminated gobs of minutes to DT who then sold really cheap US
> termination and only high cost went over that.  MCI ended up losing a
> lot of money given the cost difference of the minutes.  They shut it  
> off
> for at least a while, but that is what happens when you dont have  
> ratio
> requirements.
>
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