Where did you get this estimate? > Just to expand on this a little bit, in a slightly new direction. > Verizon estimates that it will make $600,000,000 this year off of "extra > options" in voice mail prompts. By expanding the voice mail menu > options (1 for urgent 2 to page, etc) and doing everything possible to > make sure that people stay on the phone for as long as possible they are > eating minutes off this. > > Now verizon does not make a whole lot on people calling other verizon > customers, after all they give free calling to "in network" numbers. So > where does this $600M come from? > > The only place that Verizon can bill for air time that is not in network > is if the caller is from a different telephone carrier, and since they > are not premium numbers this is access charges (for non US/CA people > mobiles and landlines are billed about the same here unlike most of the > rest of the world). > > Basically the callers telephone company is paying for that, which > ultimately the caller does by way of a monthly subscription charge or a > per minute charge if the call is not local. > > This is all off of 15-30 seconds of extra calling time per call at > probably the FCC cap of $0.007/minute (I think that cap applies to CMRS > providers). It sure does take a whole lot of those calls to reach > $600M, which far exceeds any conferencing, or even what futurephone was > doing. Add in all the other mobile providers that are doing the same > thing, and you really start to see a huge amount of money that no one is > really complaining about. > > > -- > Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel > pgp key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8AE5C721 > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >
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