> I love "out of the box" thinking. What kind of business is it?
Market research call centers - but no telemarketing :) > From who? Originally, with a regional (western states) carrier called TelAmerica. Later, I made myself the customer of record for a DS1 local loop to a major central office where I can cross-connect to any one of hundreds of long-distance providers. The local loop costs me $375 MRC, the cross-connect fee is $6 MRC, and the telco charges me for usage only. If I decide I don't like the service or billing from my telco then I can cross-connect to someone new with a simple service order. > To get the T1 and LD rate, how many minutes/month does your > business do? Clearly, you are getting some sort of volume > discount that smaller business might not be able to match. Right now we have 20 voice T1s with a million LD minutes per month so that probably did play a role. But we did get that rate offered from many vendors on a month-to-month contract with no committment to any one vendor in terms of # of T1s, monthly spend, or call volume. > 1. Does this violate some FCC rule since you're not paying > certain fees (which are tied to local lines) on your LD T1? I sure hope not. Now I wish I had gone to law school! My next post may be from a dirty jail somewhere. > 2. How does this handle 911? Perhaps a POTS line and route "911" > to it when someone dials it? I neglected to mention that we also maintain a POTS line in each office for outbound 911 calls and to route one local call at a time to save on LD charges where we can (because I'm such a tightwad). Asterisk makes it easy to route 7 digit dials & 800/877/888/866 calls out the one local line when available and otherwise tack on the area code and overflow them into the long-distance T1. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Ciholas > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:59 PM > To: David Carr > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Provisioning CO lines > > > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, David Carr wrote: > > > I discovered and deployed a solution some would consider > > counter-intuitive. > > I love "out of the box" thinking. What kind of business is it? > > > For whatever reason, I can get a dedicated long-distance T1 for > > about $400 MRC ($16 per line) > > From who? > > > For the dedicated long-distance T1, all inbound and outbound > > calls cost 1.9 cents per minute, even if you are calling a > > toll-free number or the company next door. Instead of having > > local DIDs, we simply got a huge supply of toll-free numbers, > > all with unique DNIS so we use them as DIDs for not only direct > > voice numbers but also direct fax numbers. > > For businesses with national or global footprint, this makes > sense. You're not bothered by dialing all the digits to go out > (since local calls are rare) and your customers are not bothered > to dial in on toll free numbers (since they aren't local either). > This simply means *all* calls are $1.14/hour which isn't much. > > > Do the math for your company. > > To get the T1 and LD rate, how many minutes/month does your > business do? Clearly, you are getting some sort of volume > discount that smaller business might not be able to match. > > I wonder: > > 1. Does this violate some FCC rule since you're not paying > certain fees (which are tied to local lines) on your LD T1? > > 2. How does this handle 911? Perhaps a POTS line and route "911" > to it when someone dials it? > > This appeals to me given the cost and legal burdens placed on > local lines. But it won't work for everyone by any means. > > -- > Mike Ciholas (812) 476-2721 voice > CIHOLAS Enterprises (812) 476-2881 fax > 2626 Kotter Ave, Unit D [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Evansville, IN 47715 http://www.ciholas.com > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
