Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: > How do regulated telecom companies get away with blocking anything else > like International, Toll, and 900/976 numbers? Could a carrier just as > easily play a message saying "this number not included in your > 'unlimited' plan" and then complete the call at per min rates?
No, they have to deliver the call. One thing you have to keep in mind is that smaller, intra-LATA LECs (as opposed to the national CLECs/IXCs) pass LD traffic to IXCs of one sort or another, and that's who actually gets billed the access. So, the LEC might itself have a blended or decked rate from the IXC and can price a derivative of that. Trunking customers cherry-picking expensive rate centers from a plan offered them retail as blended is a big problem, though. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (678) 237-1775 _______________________________________________ --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
