On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 09:47 -0700, Jai Rangi wrote: > All, > > I want to take community opinion on this. > Would there be enough interest if I can offer Unlimited channels, non > metered DID at $8-$11 (Depending on the volume commitment) per month. > Target is to sell atleast 10000 DIDs in one to 2 months of time > frame. > > Any comment would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > -Jai >
I think people would like it, but there would be some apprehension about it. The pstn carrier has a finite amount of channels available for that exchange. You only have so much bandwidth, even if you never touched the media the provider only has so much bandwidth. Then there is the CDR processing, route processing, etc - cpu resources are finite, although you can add more just like you can add more pstn and inet capacity. So would $8-11 cover all of those costs and allow you to really do unlimited service? What if someone ran some application that generated hundreds of thousands of calls? Or even a few that just did hundreds? Granted if you did 10k DIDs at $8 that is $80k/mo. And lets say that 10% did above average traffic of say 150 average channels, that is still 15,000 channels that would have to be maintained give or take (I really am just pulling numbers out of thin air). You would certainly be able to afford the cpu and bandwidth costs, which will require more than 1Gbps (I always discount bandwidth both because of atm padding and because you never want it 100%), but the carrier may not be able to handle that channel load, and some of the call centers I have seen traffic on, 150 channels is low, some do thousands at a time, which would skew that slightly (even though its an average over the top 10% users). In general from what I have seen, most "unlimited" plans have some type of limit burried somewhere in their user agreement/tos, this is because capacity is finite and they do not want to go overboard with capacity and lose money. On a slight tangent, I just wish that carriers who didnt offer real unlimited would stop advertising it as such, * or not to indicate some obscure definition of "unlimited"... > -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
