Does anyone have any insight into the mystery that is Telcordia's LERG subscription pricing model? It honestly seems to be based on whatever arbitrary basis they can use to squeeze as much money as possible. There doesn't seem to be an sort of clearly defined rate or tier sheet to justify any of it. Also, what are the chances of truly opening these services to competition, like happened with domain registrations so many years ago? ~SP
On 11/19/2010 12:36 PM, Steven Putnam wrote:
It honestly seems to be based on whatever arbitrary basis they can use to squeeze as much money as possible.
Yep. The polite-society euphemism for that is "market segmentation." -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 1170 Peachtree Street 12th Floor, Suite 1200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/
Telcordia seems to have an interesting idea about what competition is and how it works (along with some relatively interesting and novel concepts about contract law). While I'm not ready to comment publically on the attached letter, rest assured I'm not shutting down. -Paul (Owner and creator of telcodata.us) Steven Putnam wrote:
Does anyone have any insight into the mystery that is Telcordia's LERG subscription pricing model? It honestly seems to be based on whatever arbitrary basis they can use to squeeze as much money as possible. There doesn't seem to be an sort of clearly defined rate or tier sheet to justify any of it.
Also, what are the chances of truly opening these services to competition, like happened with domain registrations so many years ago?
~SP
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Domain Registrations used to be a monopoly via Network Solutions. Now Domain Registrars are a highly competitive free market. Telcordia is another one that is ripe to fall in court, with their iron-fisted control of telephone number routing data and hidden pricing metrics for what is in-essence public domain data. Fight the good fight, Paul. ~SP
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:37:51 -0500 From: paul at timmins.net To: clechouse at hotmail.com CC: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Telcordia's LERG
Telcordia seems to have an interesting idea about what competition is and how it works (along with some relatively interesting and novel concepts about contract law). While I'm not ready to comment publically on the attached letter, rest assured I'm not shutting down.
-Paul (Owner and creator of telcodata.us)
Steven Putnam wrote:
Does anyone have any insight into the mystery that is Telcordia's LERG subscription pricing model? It honestly seems to be based on whatever arbitrary basis they can use to squeeze as much money as possible. There doesn't seem to be an sort of clearly defined rate or tier sheet to justify any of it.
Also, what are the chances of truly opening these services to competition, like happened with domain registrations so many years ago?
~SP
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