[VoiceOps] STI-CA average pricing

[Mary Lou Carey]

I would agree with you and I'm sure the big carriers are behind a lot of 
this because it's just another way to be anti-competitive when it 
doesn't really fix the entire problem. I'm not sure what type of switch 
you have, but this only works with VOIP. If you still use your SS7 
network then it doesn't apply because no one has figured out how to make 
it work properly with SS7.

MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111

On 2022-06-06 01:45 PM, Mike Johnston wrote:
> 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.
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