Managing financial exposure on postpaid can be hard stuff. Some give up on it.
Also, despite the fact that it's a well-known and tiresome boondoggle - as well as a fairly moribund loophole - at this point, there seems to be no shortage of VoIP outfits blundering their way into the carrier access billing arbitrage I described in my post on termination. The DIDs are free and completely unlimited (and indeed, in some cases, they'll even pay you a little tiny bit for the usage), but the catch is that they're in some really bizarre, rural rate center (area code and exchange, or NPA-NXX). This is them setting up shop with a rural independent and getting a cut of the access charges. Beware, this is in the process of going away, and is generally a really stupid idea despite the phenomenal amounts of money that have been made with it in times past. Fred Posner wrote: > I'm really liking Flowroute right now and have switched most of my > did's to them. As with many of the providers lately, they are pre- > pay... but the site is nice and payments move quickly. What I really > like about Flowroute is the no-minimum, diversity of plans, cost, and > unlimited channel support. For example, on a line I have that's > residential, I use their 6.95 unlimited incoming 2 channel plan... on > some business lines where I might need channel flexibility, I use > unlimited channel 1.2cents/min incoming. Outbound is around less than > 1c/m for USA and pretty decent prices throughout. > > I had been using Voicepulse, but suffered more downtime last year than > I hoped and found that support was a little hard to get a hold of when > issues occur. > > Fred Posner > [email protected] > > Main: +1 (212) 937-7844 > Direct: +1 (503) 914-0999 > > www.teamforrest.com > > On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:29 AM, randulo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Inspired by a recent rant about one particular provider, I am getting >> very curious about something I've never mastered. I'd like someone to >> explain this here or at least post a link or two that can educate me >> and probably countless others who have no knowledge in this area. I'm >> sure there are several of you reading this that know all about the >> subject. >> >> What are the various business models of these providers, in particular >> where are they on the food chain of the DID or trunks they offer? >> >> For example, I have accounts with several well-known providers of SIP, >> IAX trunks, hosted pbx and DID. Each of these is located in a >> different area, and I would assume they have different peering and >> rates they pay to their upstreams. Without naming names, could someone >> tackle this? It might help people know what they are getting into when >> the open an account. >> >> What are the best *types* of companies for each category: asterisk >> testing and home use, small business, larger business, General >> Motors... >> >> tia, >> >> /r >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > -- 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 -- Alex Balashov 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 -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
