Thanks Faisal & Josh, this helps quite a bit. I think I will give them a base plan with 250 min and a few options for more minutes. I got the impression this would be low usage, just wanted to put out a toll-free number for a home business.
Thanks, Chris On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Faisal Imtiaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Toll Frees are always charged on usage bases.. > > BTW, no one says that you have to sell it like that... > > You can easily choose to sell it in any manner you like..... > But you will be paying based on usage. > > Some thoughts... > > You can sell him a bundle of min... i.e. TF + 100 min of use / month = > $20, anything over 100min will be billed at 10c/min > or some combination of this. > > If they use less than 100 min, then you keep the $.... > If they use more, then you get to bill them for the overage or sell them > a bigger bundle package. > > What you get to keep is commonly refereed to as 'breakage' and it tends > to be a good money maker.. > > Hint Hint... if you are paying anything significant for 'unlimited use / > per line', you should look into what the actual usage is.. and it is > highly likely that there may be a good sum of $ you are giving to your > provider for the 'breakage' which you could keep if you were to choose > to pay for usage. > > > Telco's can charge anywhere between 5c/min to 10c/min.. but what is > interesting is that they will stuff your bill with a $5 to $10 / month > extra fee for 'low usage'. > Wholesale pricing is anywhere between a 2c to 5c / min, depending on > commit and usage. > for end user 5c/min is a good acceptable rate when usage is expected to > be low. > > My guess, this person will gladly pay you anywhere between $10 to > $20/month for a low usage TF with a bundle of min. > And that would be average / competitively speaking. > > > > Of Course YMMV. > > Regards. > > Faisal Imtiaz > Snappy Internet& Telecom > 7266 SW 48 Street > Miami, Fl 33155 > Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 > Helpdesk: 305 663 5518 option 2 Email: [email protected] > > > On 5/11/2012 10:42 AM, Chris Fabien wrote: >> We offer residential unlimited VOIP service with fixed monthly billing >> and use a provider who charges us a fixed cost per line. A new >> customer would like an 800 number. Our voip provider can do it, but >> will bill us per minute on that line. I don't want to have to manually >> calculate charges each month for this one customer. >> >> Is there some service that can provide me a fixed price toll-free >> number that I could forward to a normal local number? Or should I just >> come up with a bulk minute plan for the customer, say 1000 min/mo and >> occasionally check their usage? Still manual work involved there. >> >> What would they expect to pay from the telco for an 800 number, so I >> can have a ballpark price in mind? I've never done anything with >> toll-free numbers. >> >> >> Thanks >> Chris Fabien >> LakeNet LLC >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
