>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"...
marketing = psychology... even if you're getting the same amount and level of service, people will buy what they feel is more. Which is "unlimited" Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: > 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"... > _______________________________________________ --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
