[Cialug]voip

[neal daringer]

could the high number of customers on that switch make a dent in the 
costs of the extra features?

my guess is that basic service costs should cover that. $50/month * x 
number of customers(with the unlimited plan) = large profit
bottom line, nobody uses $50 worth of phone service a month.

Dave Weis wrote:
> 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?
>
> Not my switch, the Qwest one that serves WDM:
> http://www.qwest.com/cgi-bin/iconn/mou.cgi
> Pick Iowa, the switches that start with DESMIA are the Des Moines area 
> ones. AW is West Des Moines, DT is downtown, WS is central Des Moines, 
> EA is east, SO is south, and NW is Urbandale/Johnston.
>
> dave
>
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