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[Dave Weis]

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