Nitzan Kon wrote: > I totally agree, and have the same fear of bait & switch tactics. > > One thought I had to prevent this is to let providers know that > a condition for being placed/displayed on the site will be > "static" rates where once submitted rates will have to be valid > for at least a month. And any provider caught bait & switching > will be permanently banned with a public mention of the reason > for the ban. >
One note on this: we've worked with three different providers over the last 2 years that change their rates (and rate centers) weekly. Every single WEEK, we get a list of new rates and rate centers. The rate center change is the hardest to keep up with -- with a country going from 2 rate centers to 50 to 10 to 80 to 5 over the course of weeks. It makes it next to impossible to keep track of actual RATES to destinations (and mind-numbingly complex for billing, which is one of the reasons we moved away from these providers for anything other than secondary and tertiary routing in the case of a disaster). Would such providers be automatically banned or would there be some sort of extenuating circumstances based on business model? Not, mind you, that I ever foresee such providers as displaying their pricing to anyone (especially since their pricing falls under copious NDAs for potential CLIENTS, much less for the general public). N. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
