Let's put it in even simpler terms. True story by the way: Spain cellular sells for 19cents per minute the cheapest anyone can find (this is only an example)... So I calculate I can resell for 23cents per minute. But then everybody tells me that they prefer to buy from X, who was selling at 18 cents. It took me time to figure it out, but now I know: I billed at 6 cents increments and they billed at 60 seconds increments, and probably their minutes lasted 55 seconds. It worked for them beautifully since average length of a call on that route was 6 minutes.
Conclusion: the cheapest quality routes charge 30/30 or 60/60 to cover for the cheaper price you think you are getting. C. Savinovich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Linus Surguy Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 3:00 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....? > We've been using carriers that bill 1/1, and the quality hasn't been too > good, lots of 503's etc. We just started testing with someone else that > offers much better ASR's (they failover internally between qwest, global > crossing etc), but they bill 30/6. According to THEM, only companies that > can't offer top quality routes bill 1/1. Well, I can't speak for the US, but as far as Europe is concerned that is complete nonsense. All the top tier operators in Europe bill per second. Linus _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
