On Friday 01 May 2009 15:52:44 Tim Panton wrote: > 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 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. > > 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.
Isn't there a need for a Web service here?
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