[188871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: phone fun,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Apr 20 11:17:30 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <57179952.8040706@vaxination.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 08:15:19 -0700
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 7:59 AM, Jean-Francois Mezei =
<jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
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> On 2016-04-20 10:52, Owen DeLong wrote:
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>> For the most part, =E2=80=9Clong distance=E2=80=9D calls within the =
US are a thing of the
>> past and at least one mobile carrier now treats US/CA/MX as a single
>> local calling area=20
>=20
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> Is this a case of telcos having switched to IP trunks and can reach
> other carriers for "free"
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> Or are wholesale long distance still billed between carriers but at
> prices so low that they can afford to offer "free" long distance at
> retail level ?
I think it boiled down to a recognition that the costs of billing were =
beginning to account for something like $0.99 of every $1 billed.
Owen
