[VoiceOps] Rural call completion hotline
Jay Hennigan
jay at west.net
Tue May 5 00:42:17 EDT 2015
On 5/4/15 1:29 PM, David Thompson wrote:
> Finally someone's taking a stand about this. Unacceptable in 2015 in
> America that you cannot call coast to coast and expect the call to be
> connected.
Yes and no.
Imagine a rural town with a population of 600 people and maybe 300
telephones that has very high per-minute termination charges justified
by the cost of outside plant to reach those people. Building capacity to
handle calls to those human beings living in that area and absorbing the
charges of the miniscule percentage of total LD calls to those humans is
trivial for most IXCs.
When that rural town splits revenue with the operators of thousands of
"free" conference call services, 900-number style chat lines,
dial-a-prayer, and any other traffic pumping scheme you can think of,
things change. The call failures to the live breathing humans actually
living in the rural area aren't due to insufficient capacity to reach
the subscribers that justified the high termination charges, they're due
to orders of magnitude more inbound calls to the exchange than actual
bona-fide rural lines.
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Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net
Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/
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