On Wednesday 06 June 2007 10:30 pm, Richard (Rogers @ work) wrote: > "You can't have everything" sounded like what Bell's altitude. > Now Bell is begging me repeatedly to try to earn me back as their > customer.
I'm not sure I follow your logic. Normally you'd be paying $35/mo (est.). Take this over a year, that's $420. At $5/mo you're at $60/mo, but you have to add up the incoming and outgoing minutes. Considering that our entire 30-person office and western sales office use no more than $60/mo for our long distance, I would imagine that you are saving quite a bit and that the additional $2.50/mo is a flash in the pan in your overall telephone costs. > The $2.5 is nothing but a provisioned number in the equipment. I have > to run the asterisk server at my end... Perhaps I'm mistaken, but you would have had to run your proprietary KSU or PBX beforehand, did you not? Alternatively, you could have get a redundant internet connection, a higher-grade (T1, fiber, SDSL or private ADSL VPI/VCI (to bypass the LNS and get better reliability)) connection or go to a full-blown multihomed IP and get a higher uptime, but every single one of those options cost SIGNIFICANTLY more than the $30 a year you're paying for the peace of mind of CFU, not to mention the simplicity. Bell can't give you that for $35/mo. They've got the uptime, but any of the services you've got on your Asterisk server would be costing you significantly more on top of the basic line charge, as I'm sure you're aware of. I guess my original reply came off a little flippant, but it seems silly to complain over $30 a year when it's a business you're talking about, and you're saving a far, far larger amount in the long run. Yes, minimize costs. Yes, optimize all facets of the business. Certainly you're not so lean and streamlined that $30/year is your biggest source of financial waste! -A.
