Interesting thread! With regard to the use of 'unlimited': Wengo's TOS in the early days when they offered unlimited SIP calling at 7 euros per month did not state a number of minutes but had a sentence difficult to translate into English, but meaning something like this:
"If you are using more minutes than the average person, we reserve the right..." The idea was actually clear: no heavy business use, no large family of glandular-age girls on the phone all day, etc. IIRC, they cut off calls after two hours as well, probably for the teen-aged girls referred to previously. Today, as you all know, 'unlimited' never means anything other than "limited to an arbitrary amount of resource usage that we can reconcile with our business plan". IOW, service providers need to make money on the accounts, not just provide a service. If you ever heard anything else in 'unlmited', you probably also think the $99 iPhone is a steal. Which it is. For AT&T. And what about unlimited dialing to 50 countries? Presumably a French operator like <spit> Orange has to pay to terminate a call to the USA? They *must* have limits. _______________________________________________ --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
