On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Miles Scruggs wrote: > I think you maybe shocked to see what a full rate deck actually looks > like. A complete deck (if it is competitive) can be upwards of 300,000 > lines. If you have a termination provider that is selling US 48 at a > flat rate with no restrictions they either aren't doing it to every > market, or it is way over priced. (If anyone out there wants to > terminate the US 48 with no restrictions for $0.01/min I have a little > over 1,000,000 per day to send you) > > What really gets me is all the different ways that international is > done, and the fact that most sheets give you names instead of dialing > codes. Names are next to useless when trying to rate a call and every > carrier has a different name for each dialing code compared to the > next carrier out there. In short being competitive with your rates, > and billing calls isn't not trivial which is why some billing software > alone runs upwards of $100,000. > > None of these are great reasons for not publishing a deck, but the > average person buying termination doesn't want to bother with a > 300,000 line long rate deck.
That's ok -- don't publish it! But when I'm your customer, I want your rates, all of them, in a computer-digestable format, and easily updatable. If you are giving me a flat rate, I want to see that in the rate deck. If you want to publish something different to the public, great! But as a customer, I want the full rate deck for EVERY destination supported, so I don't have to manually update the rates you left out because you didn't consider the US worthy of inclusion. I understand some do full npanxx, but most I deal with (I'm a small fry compared to your 1M minutes per day) give me a flat blended rate, and I want to know what I can and cannot terminate to and at what cost. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy [email protected] http://www.angryox.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
