--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Alex Balashov <[email protected]> wrote: > The statistical loss expectancy of business impact from > call length > computation errors resulting from never getting SIP BYEs > and whatnot > seems far lower than the cost of dealing with media.
I disagree. I will not name names, but we have a specific wholesale carrier we work with who on a regular basis bills us for 2 hour runaway calls (probably because they didn't get a BYE packet). To say the least this is annoying, but over time I'm pretty sure we've lost hundreds of dollars that way. To them it's not a big deal because not only they're saving money on not proxying the packets - they are actually profiting from this. If the call gets cut off after 2 minutes they only need to pay 2 minutes of termination - but we pay them for 2 hours. This does not happen with any other carrier - as all other carriers we work with proxy the calls. From a customer satisfaction perspective at least until a solution to this problem can be found proxying is most definitely the way to go for carriers who are serious about their business. IMHO, of course. -- Nitzan http://www.comparevoipproviderrates.com/ _______________________________________________ --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
