For what it's worth, I think that it is probably a good idea for a business such as DIDx to exist. However, I think that DIDx needs to radically change their business practices and the way in which they represent and market themselves in order for anyone to take them seriously and in order for them to really serve the market in a useful way and possibly make some money while they're at it.
People with excess facilities and people who run DID businesses can sometimes easily provide DIDs, and people sometimes need to buy some DIDs in various locations. Great. But DIDx tries to mask everything in fancy sounding rhetoric in order to make it sound like you are buying a DID from them that they are in control of and can provide some kind of meaningful (and by meaningful I do not mean "if it stops working, you get your 30 cents back") guarantee that said DIDs will actually work and keep working and not fall out from under you at the whim of some company over which DID has very little, if any, influence. I think that if DIDx represented themselves in a more open and frank manner as an eBay-like entity; a place that brokers deals between DID buyers and DID sellers, they would get a lot farther than they will with their current approach. I know that some of the criticism of DIDx on this list might sound shrill or unwarranted to some people, but as long as DIDx keeps trying to act like they are in a position to exercise some kind of actual quality control over the DIDs they broker, I say that the critics are mostly justified in their criticism. -Rusty _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
