Michael wrote: > > Yes, but with an A-Z carrier, this can become risky when landline calls are > charged very differently to cellular calls, as is the case in NZ, Australia > and many other countries, unless someone is just a 'virtual' provider and > letting their up line do the invoices. > > Some of our providers have rates that don't change much (they've built in tolerance levels to them, so that if there's a fluctuation of 5c in one direction or another, it won't much matter.
Some of our providers pass us a new A-Z rate deck every WEEK. Including rate changes and prefix changes. Countries go from 5 prefixes to cover mobile, to 25, and then to 18, and then to 7, and then to 130... changing on a weekly basis (and sometimes daily in a few countries we deal with). You'd need to get more than just the Asterisk community into this. You'd need an overall organisation of underlying carriers worldwide which could update their destinations whenever there's a change. As a project, that's not only daunting technologically, but massively difficult politically. A lot of those UCs aren't going to WANT to join your coalition of information. After all, what's in it for them? Add to that that the information it gives YOU is not going to be applicable on a grand scale. While the actual carrier who maintains prefixes 56-110 may change their structure on a weekly basis, it's possible the contracts they have with providers you'd be using have differing information available to the provider. Which means that just because something in the landscape changes, the rates may not change to you (or might change to YOU, but not to someone who uses a different provider that uses the same UC). I'm not sure I can see the value of a community-driven effort to keep track of things which, by nature, are not applicable to everyone in the community, as we all have our own contracts with our own providers and our own set of rates based on our own conditions of traffic. Perhaps you can explain better the value of the proposition in more detail. N. _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
