> But then I am weird that way.
I don't think you are weird for that opinion, I think you're weird for
other reasons. :-) Even with all those call metrics people throw around
(ACD, some other TLAs that I have to look up), it's hard to really get a
good idea of how good or bad a termination provider (and their
relationship with other carriers) is.
I still wish everyone would publish an easy to parse rate sheet.
Please include US and Canada 1nxx in your rate sheet so I know I can send
US and Canada traffic to you and what you charge differently depending on
the destination (i.e. don't publish "1,0.01" because I know you aren't
letting me send calls to Dominican Republic for that). And why the hell
can't people publish their Hawaii and Alaska rates? I sometimes have to
call and ask, even when they have a whole beautiful A-Z rate list
published on a regular basis. They should really call it "A-Z except
countries we don't consider International." Just show me the rates for
everything!!!
Let me call out some providers:
Vitelity: http://www.vitelity.com/intlcsv.php
No mention of anything except US Virgin Islands,1340,0.01664
No Canada, no Hawaii or Alaska
Teliax: http://media.teliax.com/rates.csv
No US, they do mention Canada rates though
Binfone: http://www.binfone.com/a-to-z-rates.csv
Mention Alaska and Hawaii, but not the rest of the US. And they
include Canada. Winners! But still losers.
Voipjet: http://www.voipjet.com/ratescsv.php
Hurrah! They include USA! But they do it lazy -- US Proper,1,0.013
I'm betting 1808 and 1907 (Alaska and Hawaii) are more expensive...
I dislike the lazyness of the prefix '1'. What's USA Proper
anyway? US48? So what's the rate outside the US48? Hawaii?
Alaska? Maybe they don't serve them? But that prefix '1' says
they do! SO WTF!
GRNvoip: http://70.42.75.67/grnvoip/dlnRate.asp
OH so close! They do something weird though, some sort of standard
vs premium rates, plus only guarantees 90% of calls via premium
routs will deliver CallerID. Really? What kind of industry is
this?!? At least they enumerate the full prefix for all area codes
in the US. No question that the rate for Jersey and the rate for
Alaska or the US Virgin Islands are different!
So there's a sampling of the ugliness that is the termination market. No
standard CSV formats, no standardized inclusion of rates not considered
international. How do we get by?
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