Re: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

In hiding the carrier you to business with is just silly in my opinion.
Basically what your saying is I know something you don't and I won't tell
you what it is.
If this is the only method you have of protecting your business or keeping
your customers as yours then you won't be around long after your customers
get some education under their belt.

Tom

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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Peter Beckman
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:57 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] DID provider

On Wed, 20 May 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:

> One reason this is not done by origination providers at the
> pre-ordering and/or pre-NDA stage is because revealing available
> numbers would let any curious person do LNP dips and/or check pooling
> info and figure out the underlying carriers.

Oooooooh, that'd be awful! (I love ya Alex, but really?) One might be
able to determine if L3 or Paetec or Verizon is the underlying carrier,
and then what? Go around the 3rd party provider and buy direct? NOT buy
the number because you hate the underlying carrier?

I'm not saying providers should publish their providers publically, but
NOT showing the number because you might:

1. Find out the provider
2. ...
3. Profit!

is silly.

I've held the belief that that providers don't show the numbers so that a
number you want doesn't disappear when you are trying to order it. I
don't mind the number disappearing -- it's first come, first served.
However, I am able to sell more numbers if I know what the number is
before hand because people get 'attached' to numbers when they know what
it will be, and THEY don't want to lose the number they've come to love.

I'm fine if a company only shows you the number after you sign a contract
or something, but NOT showing the numbers before you buy so you don't find
out who THEY are buying from seems pretty silly, if true.

Beckman
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