[Cialug]voip

[neal daringer]

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?

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?
>
> -Tom
>
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