Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-28 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 18:32 -0700, C. Savinovich wrote: > 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

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-28 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 22:00 +, Linus Surguy wrote: > > 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 > > crossi

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-28 Thread C. Savinovich
erisk 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 failove

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-28 Thread Linus Surguy
> 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 t

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-28 Thread Jon Weisman
erisk Discussion Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments? >Hi Doug, > >Quoting Douglas Garstang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> So, I have a general question. >> >> What billing increments do ITSP&#

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-28 Thread Douglas Garstang
>Hi Doug, > >Quoting Douglas Garstang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> So, I have a general question. >> >> What billing increments do ITSP's who terminate SIP->PSTN normally bill in? >> >> We've been using carriers that bill 1/1, and the quality hasn't been >> too good, lots of 503's etc. We just start

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-28 Thread Douglas Garstang
>On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:56 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote: >> So, I have a general question. >> >> What billing increments do ITSP's who terminate SIP->PSTN normally >> bill in? >> >> We've been using carriers that bill 1/1, and the quality hasn't been >> too good, lots of 503's etc. We just sta

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-28 Thread Jay Kordic
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitul Limbani Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 2:02 AM To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments? Hi Doug, Quoting Douglas Garstang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So, I have a

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-28 Thread Mitul Limbani
Hi Doug, Quoting Douglas Garstang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So, I have a general question. > > What billing increments do ITSP's who terminate SIP->PSTN normally bill in? > > 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

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-28 Thread Yair Hakak
hi, first of all, as far as i know, there are a lot of short calls. think of all the calls that end in a voicemail box where the caller doesn't leave a message. There is a lot of slack in 30 second minimums. and, historically, 6/6 was used because 6 seconds is 10% of a minute - it just makes the

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP Billing Increments....?

2008-03-27 Thread Trixter aka Bret McDanel
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:56 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote: > So, I have a general question. > > What billing increments do ITSP's who terminate SIP->PSTN normally > bill in? > > 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 te

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP for Orillia Ontario Canada

2007-07-27 Thread Henry L.Coleman
No, Unlimitel just don't have any POP in Orillia. Henry < Robert Augustyn> > Henry, > Are you experiencing any problems with Unlimitel? > Thanks > robert > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Henry L.Coleman >> Sent: Friday, July 27

RE: [asterisk-biz] ITSP solution needed

2006-10-18 Thread Charles Vance
ion To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] ITSP solution needed Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:18:43 -0500 Bob, I need the same thing. I've been thinking of building it myself (hiring plenty of help). Please send any pertinent info you have at this po

RE: [asterisk-biz] ITSP solution needed

2006-10-18 Thread Jim Murphy
EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sotelsystems.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:06 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP solution needed We h

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP solution needed

2006-10-17 Thread Mitul Limbani
Hello Curt, Currently we have a robust billing solution and are using it to provide calling minutes to call centers. We can modify this similar solution to satisfy your needs, and it wont cost you a bomb for SURE! Contact me off the list so that we can discuss further. Thanks & Regards, Mitu

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP solution needed

2006-10-17 Thread Stephen Wingfield
ot;Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP solution needed We have a solution being done, price is 24,999$ plus 4,999 $ setup. CDN funds as the $ signs says. digium board users get a 10% discount . C

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP solution needed

2006-10-17 Thread Amber VoIP
hello, we can offer solution exactly for you, based on our own hosted pbx and billing. if you interesting, please email of directly. andy On 10/17/06, Curt Shaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All, I am looking for a basic web based ITSP solution that can do the following: Enter DIDs Rout

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP solution needed

2006-10-17 Thread Bob Smith
We have a solution being done, price is 24,999$ plus 4,999 $ setup. CDN funds as the $ signs says. digium board users get a 10% discount . Curt Shaffer wrote: All, I am looking for a basic web based ITSP solution that can do the following: Enter DIDs Route DIDs to customers ZAP, IAX a

RE: [asterisk-biz] ITSP in Estonia?

2006-08-09 Thread Tarvo Jõeste
: [asterisk-biz] ITSP in Estonia? Need Estonian phonenumbers and SIP-termination. - Original Message - Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:55:25 -0700 From: "Ioan Biris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] ITSP in Estonia? To: "'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asteris

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP in Estonia?

2006-08-09 Thread Lennart Utgård
Need Estonian phonenumbers and SIP-termination. - Original Message - Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:55:25 -0700 From: "Ioan Biris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] ITSP in Estonia? To: "'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'&

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP in Estonia?

2006-08-09 Thread AmberVoIP
Hello, www.voipproviderslist.com www.calltermination.com (there is reference to list of ITSP's) Andy. On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:50:17 +0200 Lennart Utgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Does anyone know of a ITSP in Estonia? > We need to buy services for one of our customers with office in

RE: [asterisk-biz] ITSP in Estonia?

2006-08-09 Thread Ioan Biris
Hi ,     What do you need exactly from the ITSP ?   Regards, Ioan   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lennart Utgård Sent: August 9, 2006 2:50 PM To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-biz] ITSP in Estonia?   Hi!   Do

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP

2006-03-09 Thread Chris A. Icide
Moshe, Hello, I sent you two replies in private email, one the day after you first sent a request and again yesterday, please let me know if you are not receiving them. Thanks, Chris Moshe Maeir wrote: Chris Hi, I asked you in the past, but did not get an answer  --- how we can try it o

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP

2006-03-08 Thread Alistair Cunningham
Zafer, We have an ITSP product all ready to go. For more details, please see: http://integrics.com/products/itsp/ An online demo is at: http://itsp.demo.integrics.com/?username=guest;password=guest and a feature list is at: http://integrics.com/products/itsp/latest/fe

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP

2006-03-07 Thread Moshe Maeir
Chris Hi, I asked you in the past, but did not get an answer  --- how we can try it out and what the pricing will be. Thanks Moshe Moshe Maeir [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-646-432-4949 Unlimited Phone Calls! www.msmnetphone.com Chris A. Icide wrote: You can also look at our application at htt

Re: [asterisk-biz] ITSP

2006-03-07 Thread Chris A. Icide
You can also look at our application at http://www.netgeeks.net/.  It's an ITSP solution with an integrated billing package.  It's currently in successful beta testing use at several VoIP providers with live customers using the system. -Chris Zafer Khodr wrote: We are currentl

RE: [asterisk-biz] ITSP

2006-03-07 Thread Dinesh Ravishanker
Zafer,   Please visit our website at www.SkyyConsulting.com – On the front page is a link for ITSP’s.  We are currently architecting a solution that may be of interest to you.   Some preliminary documentation has been made public regarding ITSP’s & Asterisk.     Thanks,      Dinesh

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
Mike Benoit wrote: Obviously VOIP companies don't control the routes between them and their customers, but when I say "quality and reliability" I mean no random busy signals, ring back that actually works, CID that actually works, incoming calls don't get "dead air", new orders they claim to be com

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Mike Benoit
Again, this thread isn't about the internet being the issue. The VOIP companies are the issue, NOT the internet in most cases that I have run across. I don't even want "enterprise class" service from my VOIP company, I just want things to work consistently as advertised, and for them to actually

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Mike Benoit
Obviously VOIP companies don't control the routes between them and their customers, but when I say "quality and reliability" I mean no random busy signals, ring back that actually works, CID that actually works, incoming calls don't get "dead air", new orders they claim to be completed in 14days ar

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Goodyear
On Mar 30, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Brian West wrote: OK, so I'm not alone here. Between your response, Mike Benoit's, and several others, it seems like a few of us are looking for enterprise-class service, such as what we'd experience if we carefully selected an HSP for a server farm. Pay a premium a

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Brian West
OK, so I'm not alone here. Between your response, Mike Benoit's, and several others, it seems like a few of us are looking for enterprise-class service, such as what we'd experience if we carefully selected an HSP for a server farm. Pay a premium and get taken care of. It's like something I exp

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Goodyear
On Mar 30, 2005, at 9:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Mike Benoit wrote: I'd be more then happy to pay 3-5cents/min to a company that has proven reliable in both there quality of service and customer support. Just because a company charges 3cents/min doesn't mean they are any

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Goodyear
On Mar 30, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: Robert Goodyear wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Brian West wrote: Price, Reliability, Quality Pick 2. NEXT!!! /b Yeah, we've already been over that. Waiting for someone to step up to the plate and give me items 2 and 3 at the expense

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread alex
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Mike Benoit wrote: > I'd be more then happy to pay 3-5cents/min to a company that has proven > reliable in both there quality of service and customer support. Just > because a company charges 3cents/min doesn't mean they are any better > then the 1cent/min company either. If y

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
Robert Goodyear wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Brian West wrote: Price, Reliability, Quality Pick 2. NEXT!!! /b Yeah, we've already been over that. Waiting for someone to step up to the plate and give me items 2 and 3 at the expense of item 1. Hey wait a minute... isn't VoicePulse one o

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Mike Benoit
The whole point of this thread is that we WANT to pick two, but in my experience the two we want don't exist! What currently exists is only ONE. Price. What I want (and assume other people posting to the thread) want is: Reliability and Quality I'd be more then happy to pay 3-5cents/min to a comp

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Herman Webley
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 08:45 -0800, Robert Goodyear wrote: > Hey wait a minute... isn't VoicePulse one of the most expensive? > Doesn't that mean I can have Reliability and Quality now according to > the formula above? Maybe they are just a bad company Best regards, Herman Webley _

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Goodyear
On Mar 30, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Brian West wrote: Price, Reliability, Quality Pick 2. NEXT!!! /b Yeah, we've already been over that. Waiting for someone to step up to the plate and give me items 2 and 3 at the expense of item 1. Hey wait a minute... isn't VoicePulse one of the most expensive? D

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Mike
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Glenn wrote: Mike said: I say that we all boycott VP. Boycott? How about just take our business elsewhere and give negative recommendation on VP? Sorry that is what I ment Mike ___ Asterisk-Biz mailing list Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Brian West
Price, Reliability, Quality Pick 2. NEXT!!! /b On Mar 30, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Robert Goodyear wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 6:45 AM, Asterisk guy wrote: try mutualphone.com , excellent rates , US 1.2c This is not a fishing expedition. The whole discussion revolves around everything BUT the price

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Glenn
Robert Goodyear said: > > On Mar 30, 2005, at 6:45 AM, Asterisk guy wrote: > >> try mutualphone.com , excellent rates , US 1.2c > > This is not a fishing expedition. The whole discussion revolves around > everything BUT the price per minute. If you had said "Try XYZ, excellent > technical sales s

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Glenn
Mike said: > I say that we all boycott VP. Boycott? How about just take our business elsewhere and give negative recommendation on VP? cheers, glenn ___ Asterisk-Biz mailing list Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/as

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Mike
I say that we all boycott VP. On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Robert Goodyear wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 5:56 AM, Glenn wrote: Robert Goodyear said: I need to vent a little bit here, Amen! I just posted the message from VoicePulse to the list. I actually noticed the price increase on the VP Connect web site o

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Goodyear
On Mar 30, 2005, at 6:45 AM, Asterisk guy wrote: try mutualphone.com , excellent rates , US 1.2c This is not a fishing expedition. The whole discussion revolves around everything BUT the price per minute. If you had said "Try XYZ, excellent technical sales service, reliable origination" I would

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Goodyear
On Mar 30, 2005, at 6:12 AM, Glenn wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Actually, *that* part is not wrong. You are buying wholesale service - you shouldn't really expect handholding similar to one that Vonage (say) provides (or should provide anyway) to a grandma with a SIP adapter. (full-on rant follo

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Goodyear
On Mar 30, 2005, at 5:56 AM, Glenn wrote: Robert Goodyear said: I need to vent a little bit here, Amen! I just posted the message from VoicePulse to the list. I actually noticed the price increase on the VP Connect web site on Monday. My email to VP support about the increase went unanswered. I'll

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Goodyear
On Mar 30, 2005, at 4:29 AM, steve szmidt wrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2005 01:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the thing: Customer Relationship Management is not difficult. It requires very little overhead to build a relationship with a customer in such a way that those customers become that

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Asterisk guy
try mutualphone.com , excellent rates , US 1.2c On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:12:05 -0600 (CST), Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Actually, *that* part is not wrong. You are buying wholesale service - > > you shouldn't really expect handholding similar to one that Vonage

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Glenn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Actually, *that* part is not wrong. You are buying wholesale service - > you shouldn't really expect handholding similar to one that Vonage (say) > provides (or should provide anyway) to a grandma with a SIP adapter. (full-on rant follows) Vonage **handholding**? You've G

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread Glenn
Robert Goodyear said: > I need to vent a little bit here, Amen! I just posted the message from VoicePulse to the list. I actually noticed the price increase on the VP Connect web site on Monday. My email to VP support about the increase went unanswered. I'll also note for the record that VP has

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-30 Thread steve szmidt
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 01:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Here's the thing: Customer Relationship Management is not difficult. It > > requires very little overhead to build a relationship with a customer in > > such a way that those customers become that company's evangelists and > > stick a

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-29 Thread Yair Hakak
you know what, forget reliability, forget support, all that good stuff. If voicepulse thinks they can raise rates by more than 35% (from $8 to $11) ON 2 DAYS NOTICE without grandfathering in your old clients, and think this is acceptable, then they shouldn't be in the ITSP business, and they shoul

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-29 Thread Robert Goodyear
On Mar 29, 2005, at 10:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b) There's very low barrier to entry, thus lots of lemonade stand ITSPs with a server at a ghetto-colo-of-the-month facility reselling a reseller of a reseller. I think you're right, there: perhaps while the intent to offer a solid product i

Re: [Asterisk-biz] ITSP Rant

2005-03-29 Thread alex
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Robert Goodyear wrote: > How is it that companies can push a wholesale/reseller product and not > offer ANY sort of SLA or financial recourse? I'm not talking five nines > here, but how about something like "if your DID is down for more than > five days, we'll credit you for t