I just wondered what the going rate was.... one of the CLECs we are looking to do business with wanted to charge us $2.00 a month PER ported number! They claimed this was standard! While we are on the subject.. what is the standard rate per month for DID blocks? They are offering $13.00 one time fee for 20 numbers... bad/good?
On 6/29/05, Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 12:34 pm, Daryl Sanders wrote: > > I have seen mostly a one time charge of around $25. I would > > personally stay away from anyone wanting to charge a monthly fee. > > Exactly. Equally disturbing (to me personally) are companies that build > this sort of thing into their monthly fees. If they have a high > customer churn rate, then they dont recover their porting costs. Or, > if you're a long term customer then you end up paying for it many times > over (or worse, paying for the churn). The same goes for "unlimited" > plans that have the low-usage customers paying for the high-usage > customers that haven't hit the limits on the "unlimited" plans yet. > > I know that many customers don't get past up-front fees, but still, I > personally would prefer to know that a company that I'm dealing with is > making a reasonable profit at each step of the way and not likely to > evaporate into a bankruptcy court hearing. Especially if they're > holding my ported home number. > > That's why I like (for example) one of Teliax's plan models where I can > pay by the minute, pay by the DID and pay for special things like a > porting fee or an hourly support rate for truly special support items. > At least, I *hope* they're making a profit at each step of the way. > > > On 6/29/05, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Does anyone know what a "Standard" porting charge is for porting a > > > number to a phone company (as the VoIP provider?). IE.. is it > > > normally a recurring monthly charge for each ported number? Is it > > > normally a one time port charge (for administrative work, etc)? > > > If so.. how much... what has been everyone's experience here? > > -- > Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
