Re: [asterisk-biz] BT PRS rate change

2006-01-27 Thread Linus Surguy
> Use an operator that has it's own number blocks and isn't affected. any idea who? .. at some point you have to go through a BT circuit, I thought. Everyone is effected by this surely? BT are one of the telecoms providers in the UK, they are the biggest admittedly. Many operators can provide n

Re: [asterisk-biz] BT PRS rate change

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Kennedy
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:52:49PM -, Mark Ackroyd wrote: > > Use an operator that has it's own number blocks and isn't affected. > any idea who? .. at some point you have to go through a BT circuit, I > thought. Everyone is effected by this surely? BT are one of the telecoms providers in t

Re: [asterisk-biz] BT PRS rate change

2006-01-26 Thread Linus Surguy
Use an operator that has it's own number blocks and isn't affected. any idea who? .. at some point you have to go through a BT circuit, I thought. Everyone is effected by this surely? As I said earlier, everyone has the same cost base as it all originates on a BT interconnect circuit anyway,

RE: [asterisk-biz] BT PRS rate change

2006-01-26 Thread Mark Ackroyd
> Use an operator that has it's own number blocks and isn't affected. any idea who? .. at some point you have to go through a BT circuit, I thought. Everyone is effected by this surely? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- aste

Re: [asterisk-biz] BT PRS rate change

2006-01-26 Thread Linus Surguy
BT has increased its bad debt surcharge at the interconnect level by about 1.5% - this decrease in termination revenues will affect all PRS network operators. This is likely to then be passed down to all PRS service providers such as yourself. Use an operator that has it's own number blocks and

Re: [asterisk-biz] BT PRS rate change

2006-01-26 Thread Steve Kennedy
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:28:01PM -, Linus Surguy wrote: > BT has increased its bad debt surcharge at the interconnect level by about > 1.5% - this decrease in termination revenues will affect all PRS network > operators. This is likely to then be passed down to all PRS service > providers

Re: [asterisk-biz] BT PRS rate change

2006-01-26 Thread Linus Surguy
Message - From: "Mark Ackroyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'" Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:56 PM Subject: [asterisk-biz] BT PRS rate change We have just a call from our main supplier of E1's,

[asterisk-biz] BT PRS rate change

2006-01-26 Thread Mark Ackroyd
We have just a call from our main supplier of E1's, a major telco, We use a lot of UK PRS numbers from them (090x). Apparently BT have changed the outpayment rates on these numbers and the telco are going to pass on the 1.5p reduction in outpayment. Has anyone else has something like this? Mark