what platform are you using for this?
On 4/7/2015 9:59 AM, Andreas Wiatowski wrote:
We have a sliding scale on the extensions model….
1-5 - $24.95/ext
6-10 – $19.99 /ext
11-20 - $14.99 / ext
20+ - $9.99 / ext
Selling lots over 20… making $$
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Silo Wireless Inc.
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*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *George Skorup
(Cyber Broadcasting)
*Sent:* April 6, 2015 11:32 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] VoIP
The per extension model doesn't work anymore, as far as business
customers. Say they have 10 phones/extensions at $35/mo each. Comcast
or AT&T can come in and blow that away with $200/mo business service.
Been there, done that, cannot do that anymore.
Don't think you can just jump into doing voice. IMO, it's not worth it
at all. Too many headaches. For your own business, sure, have at it.
On 4/6/2015 9:33 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
You’ve got to charge for something. It has become standard
practice not to charge for minutes, even though you get charged
for minutes. So some combination of $X per DID and $Y per
extension. Especially when you are talking to businesses, they
are used to paying per “line”, where if they want to be able to
have Z simultaneous incoming or outgoing calls, they need Z lines,
usually each with its own DID but configured as a rollover or hunt
group to the main number. But with VoIP you can have as many
calls as you want with just one “line”, so you need a different
model. Also, features like voicemail and call waiting and caller
ID that used to bring in tons of money for the phone companies are
now expected free as part of standard service. So you need to
charge for something. Otherwise you end up supporting 20 or 100
handsets with unlimited local and long distance for a total of $20
per month and you go broke. I think the idea is that an extension
is a placeholder for a bucket of minutes, if a business or MDU has
100 extensions, they will likely make 100 times as many calls as
someone with one extension. On the other hand, a business with 1
DID and 100 extensions probably shouldn’t pay as much as 100
individual customers each with an extensions and a DID, especially
since you will probably pay some small amount per month per DID
for origination.
