[VoiceOps] Conferencing NPAs

[Paul Timmins]

That's because the carriers are generally otherwise legitimate rural 
carriers and don't charge anything more outrageous than other rural 
carriers, it just upsets nonrural carriers because someone jammed an 
asterisk box or 7 in there and run massive conference bridges and now 
they have to actually call a rural area and that costs more in 
intercarrier compensation than the rate they're charging. Note that 
calling that phone company's downstream customers always cost that, the 
non-rural carriers were assuming that nobody would ever call there, and 
those that did would be a minority of their traffic.

This is the sort of reason you don't see anything distinct for those 
companies. They're already accounted for in the super high rate tier of 
whatever LD provider you're using. When you see those areas that are 
like $0.04/min that's where your very rural carriers are.

-Paul

David Hiers wrote:
> Some providers are pretty shady; they're simply limiting the number of 
> calls to the troublesome NPAs instead of trying to charge their 
> customers for the calls.
>
> Interestingly enough, of all the carrier rate sheets I've seen, I 
> can't recall one of them that had pricing that reflected the arbitrage 
> NPAs.
>
> David
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ujjval Karihaloo 
> <ujjval at simplesignal.com <mailto:ujjval at simplesignal.com>> wrote:
>
>     Guys:
>
>      
>
>      I know few months back there was a buzz about the Gotomeeting and
>     other free conferencing numbers being dinged-up for very high per
>     min rates. Has anyone had issues with Providers like Level3
>     charging high rates for these conferencing numbers?
>
>      
>
>     Ujjval Karihaloo
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