On 27 Apr 2009, at 21:03, Peter Beckman wrote:
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Miles Scruggs wrote:I think you maybe shocked to see what a full rate deck actually lookslike. A complete deck (if it is competitive) can be upwards of 300,000lines. 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 toterminate the US 48 with no restrictions for $0.01/min I have a littleover 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 dialingcodes. Names are next to useless when trying to rate a call and everycarrier 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 softwarealone 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'tconsider 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 Iwant to know what I can and cannot terminate to and at what cost.
Teliax have (had?) this web service that you can call with a number and it returns the rate in xml. They also publish their rates as csv files so you can import them. Tim. Tim Panton - Web/VoIP consultant and implementor www.westhawk.co.uk
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