[asterisk-users] What are the various models of DID providers

[Alex Balashov]

Managing financial exposure on postpaid can be hard stuff.  Some give up 
on it.

Also, despite the fact that it's a well-known and tiresome boondoggle - 
as well as a fairly moribund loophole - at this point, there seems to be 
no shortage of VoIP outfits blundering their way into the carrier access 
billing arbitrage I described in my post on termination.  The DIDs are 
free and completely unlimited (and indeed, in some cases, they'll even 
pay you a little tiny bit for the usage), but the catch is that they're 
in some really bizarre, rural rate center (area code and exchange, or 
NPA-NXX).

This is them setting up shop with a rural independent and getting a cut 
of the access charges.

Beware, this is in the process of going away, and is generally a really 
stupid idea despite the phenomenal amounts of money that have been made 
with it in times past.

Fred Posner wrote:

> I'm really liking Flowroute right now and have switched most of my  
> did's to them. As with many of the providers lately, they are pre- 
> pay... but the site is nice and payments move quickly. What I really  
> like about Flowroute is the no-minimum, diversity of plans, cost, and  
> unlimited channel support. For example, on a line I have that's  
> residential, I use their 6.95 unlimited incoming 2 channel plan... on  
> some business lines where I might need channel flexibility, I use  
> unlimited channel 1.2cents/min incoming. Outbound is around less than  
> 1c/m for USA and pretty decent prices throughout.
> 
> I had been using Voicepulse, but suffered more downtime last year than  
> I hoped and found that support was a little hard to get a hold of when  
> issues occur.
> 
> Fred Posner
> fred at teamforrest.com
> 
> Main:		+1 (212) 937-7844
> Direct:	+1 (503) 914-0999
> 
> www.teamforrest.com
> 
> On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:29 AM, randulo wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Inspired by a recent rant about one particular provider, I am getting
>> very curious about something I've never mastered. I'd like someone to
>> explain this here or at least post a link or two that can educate me
>> and probably countless others who have no knowledge in this area. I'm
>> sure there are several of you reading this that know all about the
>> subject.
>>
>> What are the various business models of these providers, in particular
>> where are they on the food chain of the DID or trunks they offer?
>>
>> For example, I have accounts with several well-known providers of SIP,
>> IAX trunks, hosted pbx and DID. Each of these is located in a
>> different area, and I would assume they have different peering and
>> rates they pay to their upstreams. Without naming names, could someone
>> tackle this? It might help people know what they are getting into when
>> the open an account.
>>
>> What are the best *types* of companies for each category: asterisk
>> testing and home use, small business, larger business, General
>> Motors...
>>
>> tia,
>>
>> /r
>>
> 
> 
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