[VoiceOps] Troubles calling those free conference services

[Paul Timmins]

If so, we would have to band together on an ILEC network, as charging 
the typical CLEC termination rates could get us accused of "traffic 
pumping" ourselves.

Dane Jasper wrote:
> I wonder if there is an opportunity for carriers to cooperate to 
> eliminate the market for these traffic pumping services. In other 
> words, if carriers were to band together and cooperate to launch a 
> free conferencing service, chat services, etc, we might limit in some 
> way the impact of the business model.
>
> -DJ
>
>
>>> Frank Bulk wrote:
>>>> Since when did our industry stop providing carriage and completing
>>>> calls?
>>>
>>> Since when did this industry aid and abet thieves? It's not very
>>> different from a doctor who gives you cholesterol drugs and vitamins
>>> instead of telling you to stop eating at McDonald's twice a day. Is it
>>> better to help someone keep doing the wrong thing? We have an
>>> opportunity to affect positive change in telecommunications.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Carlos Alvarez
>>> TelEvolve
>>> 602-889-3003
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