[asterisk-biz] Dear Termination Providers,
Tim Panton
thp at westhawk.co.uk
Fri May 1 09:52:44 CDT 2009
On 27 Apr 2009, at 21:03, Peter Beckman wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Miles Scruggs wrote:
>
>> I think you maybe shocked to see what a full rate deck actually looks
>> like. A complete deck (if it is competitive) can be upwards of
>> 300,000
>> lines. If you have a termination provider that is selling US 48 at a
>> flat rate with no restrictions they either aren't doing it to every
>> market, or it is way over priced. (If anyone out there wants to
>> terminate the US 48 with no restrictions for $0.01/min I have a
>> little
>> over 1,000,000 per day to send you)
>>
>> What really gets me is all the different ways that international is
>> done, and the fact that most sheets give you names instead of dialing
>> codes. Names are next to useless when trying to rate a call and
>> every
>> carrier has a different name for each dialing code compared to the
>> next carrier out there. In short being competitive with your rates,
>> and billing calls isn't not trivial which is why some billing
>> software
>> alone runs upwards of $100,000.
>>
>> None of these are great reasons for not publishing a deck, but the
>> average person buying termination doesn't want to bother with a
>> 300,000 line long rate deck.
>
> That's ok -- don't publish it! But when I'm your customer, I want
> your
> rates, all of them, in a computer-digestable format, and easily
> updatable.
> If you are giving me a flat rate, I want to see that in the rate
> deck. If
> you want to publish something different to the public, great! But
> as a
> customer, I want the full rate deck for EVERY destination
> supported, so I
> don't have to manually update the rates you left out because you
> didn't
> consider the US worthy of inclusion.
>
> I understand some do full npanxx, but most I deal with (I'm a small
> fry
> compared to your 1M minutes per day) give me a flat blended rate,
> and I
> want to know what I can and cannot terminate to and at what cost.
>
>
Teliax have (had?) this web service that you can call with a number
and it returns the rate in xml.
They also publish their rates as csv files so you can import them.
Tim.
Tim Panton - Web/VoIP consultant and implementor
www.westhawk.co.uk
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