[Cialug]voip

[Tom Pohl]

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?

-Tom