How come MagicJack is still around?
Sent from my iPod On Aug 16, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel <[email protected] > wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 19:54 -0400, Alex Balashov wrote: >> Trunking customers cherry-picking expensive rate centers from a plan >> offered them retail as blended is a big problem, though. >> > > sorta that is what Audiotext v AT&T was about, granted it was actual > arbitrage, the FCC said that if you want a ratio you have to actually > put that into a contract or tariff. AT&T did not put a ratio on > traffic > to the UK, and audiotext only called 7xx PNS numbers for profit. AT&T > got upset because they were losing money since Audiotext did not > follow > some ratio they said in court documents they expected but never made > as > part of the deal. > > > This type of cherry picking is what caused some flat rate providers to > tank a couple years ago. People would get every deck rate they could > and one or more flat rate providers. Anything less than the flat rate > would go decked anything more would obviously go out the flat rate > provider, which means that its likely the flat rate provider lost > money > on every call. Most of them wanted or expected some ratio but never > actually said it to the customers. > > Even settlements between large telcos can have similar situations. > MCI > and Deutche Telecom have a deal (or had at least) where instead of > cash > they would swap minute for minute. MCI got kinda upset when they > terminated gobs of minutes to DT who then sold really cheap US > termination and only high cost went over that. MCI ended up losing a > lot of money given the cost difference of the minutes. They shut it > off > for at least a while, but that is what happens when you dont have > ratio > requirements. > > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ --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
