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[Dave Weis]

neal daringer wrote:
> especially when
>    **108 759 897 minutes = 206.788007 years**
> are you sure that switch is just for your household? or do you live in a 
> time paradox?

I didn't say it was in my house, it's the switch that serves my house 
along with 50,000 other people.

> Tom Pohl wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Dave Weis wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I don't completely support the Bell pricing model, especially for 
>>> features like 3way calling and caller ID. There are hard costs to 
>>> provide caller ID name, the phone switch you are serviced from has to 
>>> ask a database what the name that corresponds to the number is. The 
>>> switch that serves my house has had 108,759,897 minutes of usage this 
>>> month so far. If you figure it at 15 minutes per call, that's 
>>> 7,250,660 calls. Estimate 1/3 of them are inbound, putting it at 
>>> 2,392,718 inbound calls. If 25% are from another telephone company 
>>> (incumbent like Iowa Telecom or competitive like McLeod) that leaves 
>>> 598,179 calls in 5 days that require them to look up the name and 
>>> incur a cost. I think the cost per lookup is around $0.001 so that 
>>> would be $600 for five days so far. That's just one office.
>>
>> Dave, how do you know that your switch has 108,759,897 minutes on it 
>> this month?