On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 20:11 -0400, Paul wrote: > I would hope to get that type of rate and have it handed to me via > ethernet. I have had many setup fees waived for myself and my clients > the last few years. I would hope to get the same treatment on a 100mps feed. > > Anyway, that cuts the cost per 64k to $1.875 a month. Of course there > will be people who insist on ulaw over sip or untrunked iax2. I always > find it amazing that people would expect to get reliability and quality > at $2.50 a month per channel.
There is still one part of the business equation that is missing. While that is true for a channel that is pegged 24/7, most calls arent. Although business customers tend to generate more calls than residential, and business customers tend to all do it during the same hours, many people who get phone service get it so they have it when they need it and dont intend on using it 24/7. Again this depends on the type of user is getting the service, a call center will likely have more traffic than a craft shop in the middle of nowhere. Alternatively a pizza place, while a business, is likely to have higher phone volume around lunch and dinner times, which can offset to some degree other business traffic that subsides perhaps a little bit during those times since people arent working. With that said, the same individual channel can be used for more than one person per month. Thus the cost per customer channel can be lower since there is some contention rate that is normally allowed. The trick is to know what that contention rate should be without impairing your customers ability to call. After all you dont want to have tons of unused bandwidth that will never be used, but you dont want to run out of any either. It used to be a 6:1 contention rate was perfectly fine for a nice blending of customer types, but again the indivudal customers that you have will dictate what the contention rate can be. At that rate it would be $0.3125 ($0.625 for 3:1) per customer per month per channel based on your math. This makes the $2.50 channel a little more of a reality, given that there will also be contention rate on the PSTN interconnection and all the other costs. But again that only works if 1. you have a large customer base, or 2. you are doing it as an initial loss leader to get customers and intend on raising rates later. Remember while we may joke about 'unlimited' service, we all know that at least 99.9% of people who use the term 'unlimited' dont mean it. Instead they mean 'some amount we wont tell you but if we decide you exceeded that amount we can cancel your service, backbill you or potentially other things'. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast IE +44 28 9099 6461 DE +49 801 777 555 3402 Utrecht NL +31 306 553058 US WA +1 360 207 0479 US NY +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.trxtel.com we pay you to terminate calls with us!
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