On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 15:58, Carmi Weinzweig wrote: > Chris - > In the real telephony world, one can buy a DID trunk without buying a > PRI. If one wants more than about 10 trunks (depending on provider), it > may be cheaper to buy a PRI instead of individual trunks. > > Having said that, most of these VoIP providers have their pricing model > exactly backwards (they seem to only want to compete with Centrex, not > with regular PBX services), in that they charge a lot for resources > that are freely available and cost them little (phone numbers), but > very little for scarce resources (call terminations) that cost them > much more.
Cost isn't a determination of scarcity. Numbers are scarce in the fact that they get assigned out to a specific entity and for a time, it is associated with that single entity. Phone lines for a VoIP provider though can be shared amongst the entire customer base. A PRI circuit should be between $35 and $50 per channel, Split amongst 3-5 customers. Of course you have to then account for the data side of the network too. Last time we discussed with our telco pricing on DIDs, it was $4/month per 20 numbers. Anything more than a couple blocks required some justification. I think it was basically to make sure we wheren't running some form of scam and moveing from number to number. > What I would like is to be limited as to how much of a scarce resource > (channels) I can use, but not be limited as to how much of a plentiful > resource (numbers) I can use. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
