On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 20:58 -0400, Alex Balashov wrote: > What about domestic US48 routes where the call is legal to terminate, > but where the ANI / CLID must be obscured so that the carrier into which > the call terminates and the ILEC through whose tandem the call transits > does not actually realise that the call is out-of-state / inter-LATA, > because the ICA of the carrier doing the termination is intra-LATA > bill-and-keep and/or settlement-free? Would that be a "grey" route? > > Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: > > Grey is somewhere in between, its shady but not overtly illegal and the > > quality can be sketchy. These can also vanish instantly without > > warning. Some times its just an abuse of a stupid carrier who will > > figure things out at some point, and sometimes they use clever games to > > reduce the price of the call through methods that may not always work. > >
I would consider that in the "clever games" category, even though its not really clever :) but that is just me. Anytime trickery is used to get a lower rate I consider it grey. -- 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
