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?
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