[VoiceOps] STI-CA average pricing

[Mike Johnston]

On 2022-06-03 22:22, Nathan Anderson wrote:
> To put my response to this pricing in context, we are a relatively small regional broadband provider, and voice is a fraction of a fraction of our business.  I'd wager just about everyone else here has a larger voice subscriber base than we do, and most of you probably didn't blink when you saw the price-tag on what it would take to become part of the STIR/SHAKEN ecosystem...just the cost of doing business, right?

The telco I work for is rural, starting 75 years ago with party lines, 
etc.  Telephone is still very important to us, but of course, Internet 
is where more of the action is these days.  We still operate our own 
telephony switches geographically placed throughout our network and take 
pride in being able to withstand all sorts of failure scenarios.  That 
is to say, we are still investing a lot of resources to maintain a good 
telephone experience for our subscribers.

And yet, we still fell out of chairs when we saw just how much money 
various vendors were charging for the various portions of the 
STIR/SHAKEN implementation.

Just the cost of doing business, you ask?  I feel that vendors realize 
that this is something we are being FORCED into, and can charge accordingly.