On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:58:28PM -0800, Ioan Biris wrote: > can anyone tell me who are the biggest players for the UK market ? > We need good pricing for termination/origination and DIDs from Tier1 > only... i repeat tier1 only.
In the UK rates are regulated by Ofcom (sort of equivalent to the FCC). BT still have dominance in the UK fixed market, and for foreign players they may be your best bet. They still own ~85% of the fixed market. There are 5,600 local BT exchanges and other operators connect into these, in order to get single or dual tandem connections another operator has to connect to around 770 of them. The OLOs (other licensed operators, though since the communications act came into force, licenses don't exist any more - but still the same players are): - Cable and Wireless (C&W) Carephone Warehouse (aka TalkTalk) THUS NTL There are probably some others. Most other telcos resell one or more of those. There are also 5 mobile networks (termination rates are also set by Ofcom) and they are Vodafone, O2 (now Telefonica), Orange, T-Mobile and 3 (Hutchison Telecom). Generally the bigger players wont directly deal with smaller players unless you have a good credit rating, and commit to large monthly volumes (millions of minutes per month). They also are generally traditional telcos with SS7 networks and don't quite understand this new fangled VoIP world, though that is changing. Steve p.s. there is no specific order precedence. -- NetTek Ltd UK mob +44-(0)7775 755503 UK +44-(0)20 79932612 / US +1-(310)8577715 / Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 Skype/GoogleTalk/AIM/Gizmo stevekennedyuk / MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ --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
