<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">>On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:56 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote:<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">>> So, I have a general question.<br>>> <br>>> What billing increments do ITSP's who terminate SIP->PSTN normally<br>>> bill in?<br>>> <br>>> We've been using carriers that bill 1/1, and the quality hasn't been<br>>> too good, lots of 503's etc. We just started testing with someone else<br>>> that offers much better ASR's (they failover internally between qwest,<br>>> global crossing etc), but they bill 30/6. According to THEM, only<br>>> companies that can't offer top quality routes bill
1/1.<br>>> <br>>> What's the deal here? Is this true?<br>><br>>First, does it really matter? How many calls do you make that are less<br>>than 30 seconds? Will the 6 second increment really affect your total<br>>price? If the new price is higher, is the quality worth it?<br><br>I don't know why, but yes, a lot of our calls are short. Just about all our volume is international, and I guess since a large number of our users are on cell phones, that may somehow be a factor.<br><br>><br>><br>>Since few PSTN based carriers offer 1/1 billing (I think this is<br>>changing though) on most plans it may be true that you cant do 1/1 with<br>>quality carriers as a general rule. I do not however believe it to be<br>>an absolute rule, and again there is cost vs quality.<br><br>Teleglobe and Arbinet do. I think Verizon does as well.<br><br><br></div></div></div><br>
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