In commercial subscriber and interconnect billing systems  LCR  is often time sensitive. Billing is at a different rate based on the time of day.
For international rates it is quite common to find three tiers Day, Economy and Supersaver rates coupled with the fact that the first minute rate
is more than the following minutes ( a kind of set-up charge)  and there may be a three minute minimum. LCR choices can get rather complex.
With VoIP, the costs of LD calls is falling towards zero and these billing models are rapidly becoming obsolete. Personally, and for my business
I use one carrier for LD and another for International calls with fail-over reversing this.
My advise is, alway always always go for quality when your reputation is at stake. A customer will not thank you for saving him $10 per month
if even one of his calls are cut off or the quality is poor.


Henry            


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:

  
instead of a blended rate you have varying rates all over the covered
area (probably US48 but may be larger I dont know).  So what they
suggest is that you look up the rate and if its less than some other
providers blended rate you use them, if its not you use your blended
rate provider.  That way instead of paying $0.003-$0.015 or whatever
you pay $0.003-$0.009 or whatever and can provide a cheaper service if
you are reselling, cheaper costs for your business if you are an end
user, or a much more complicated system than most home users want if
you are a home user :)
 

      
So they're basically doing LCR. Fair enough :-)
    
The point I am making is that if you are doing LCR and 'cherrypicking', 
the blended-rate provider is getting screwed.

-alex

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