The pain of love the portability, and misinformation OSIPTEL A couple of days ago I read a post by a character known in the local installations of Asterisk, a VoIP central OpenSource. Aureal ourselves have made of these facilities. We've also been fortunate to work hard with a local telephone operator, national and international levels, and ultimately with the same phone training staff on issues of identification of routes and numbering plans. Finally, I have close relatives working in Telefónica and having read documentation Osiptel, Telefonica and Americatel think I can write this post with some more knowledge than the character I mentioned at the beginning.
I'll make a series of very specific details which I hope will satisfy all the misinformation, half truths and unsubstantiated positions expressed in this post:
- The post gives the impression that in switching from one operator to another must be " freedom of contract ", this is not true. One can be part of the contract and pay the penalties established in early termination. Also that a contract is extinguished often returns the phone number to the operator, thus preventing its portability. There is also the subject of equipment, contracts often provide for the lease of the equipment, much of the equipment we use everyday are not our property and you should really evaluate if the target operator is available on the same team if we want to keep, and the migration of our data. We also have to check the status of the team as being a hire-purchase many times if the computer is damaged, we will pay the remaining value of hire-purchase contract for the team as compensation to the owner of the team (the operator) . There is also the problem of ownership of the number, many mobile users are now business users, for example Aureal us give them cell phones to employees, they do not have the freedom to change operators because the number is Aureal , not the end user and think that is a benefit for people mistakenly focus only is the market.
- Follow the post mentioning the "high costs" of a fixed call a mobile number. He says that because of OSIPTEL calls from a fixed to a cell having a "fixed cost", which is governed by the "free market" but a price "for not less frozen." I can not believe that a person with experience in telephony and businesses can make so many mistakes. Let's start with the theme of "fixed cost." There is a fixed component of costs assumed by the operators to establish a call between the two, and not just fixed-mobile calls but also in fixed-fixed calls, mobile-mobile, national or international. This fixed component is the cost of lease of 2 central interconnecting E1s from different companies. For example, a telephone operator in Peru will likely have an interconnection with Telefonica to establish calls in Lima, also have an interconnection of reserve in case of total or partial failure of the first interconnection, and probably also have dedicated interconnects for each department (with Telefonica as well.) There is then a fixed lease cost is set by the market between operators. Each operator is in theory free to impose costs as it deems appropriate for the calls that passed over these interconnections, so for example Telefónica amount charged per second or minute priced call to a local fixed Lima through a route and a much higher cost if the call is to a mobile or a number of province by the same route, probably because they have to go that call to another PBX using its infrastructure to work for you should not use it. This situation is usually called "spillover." So we have a fixed cost and variable cost dependent on the type of call that are made for each link. How is the cost of interconnection? Osiptel sets maximum limits, and established using econometric models and studying the market fundamentals established mathematical models. To give an idea of \u200b\u200bour high costs
I recommend this presentation to the ITU and this article compares our interconnection costs. Today we costs
differentiated by destination operator, is also charged per second (not per minute), and cost in all cases is less than $ 0.1 per minute rated the second. So for example, a call from a course at a cost Movistar interconnection costs set by the 2009
Osiptel U.S. $ 0.0922 per minute rated the second cost for the operator of the caller. Well away from the "1 sun" mentioned by the character in his blog. I know about the case of Americatel, and they Osiptel charge exactly what states like interconnection costs, subsidizing the cost of maintaining your network and the cost of the physical link with the other operators charging such costs to the operation of their incoming international calls for example.
- Follow the post describing the "understanding" of some companies to use as telulares systems are not only cell lines connected to the telephone exchanges to skip the fixed operator to place a call directly from a cell phone, preferably same operator as the destination number. A long time ago that the market has established that the minutes "promotional" normally apply to any destination fixed or mobile. For example Aureal us we have a bag of several hundreds of minutes with which we can call destinations in fixed, mobile, national or international. I understand that there are some companies that do not have such a plan, preferring for example, using a prepaid cell phone and charge card lines by taking advantage of "four times" to provide extra minutes for calls within the same operator. I invite these companies to make a mathematical exercise to determine the actual desirability of such behavior. The use of bags of minutes is obviously cheaper.
- Follow the post with a volley over from Osiptel. We started by using routers and the claims for utilzación of a "public foundation" for a membership to an operator. Eye, the national numbering plan has been available in OSIPTEL long as there have multiple operators in Peru, not only for mobile operators, but for fixed operators as well. The author would recommend that if both are concerned to optimize call costs worry to know that there are several fixed-line operators also have a significant amount of phone numbers. OSIPTEL eye is not to worry about "pockets of consumers", that would place him in a popular position. OSIPTEL is to believe in the pockets of the operators as well, and think about keeping competition on a level which allows users to have alternatives.
- Continue the post with one of the worst lies, says that no one knows who and how will manage the database of ported numbers. Of course, portability is already in force and no operator of the database?! What!? I think the character did not learn that the administrator of the database was chosen in April 2009 and the winner was the consortium CIS / Corte Ingles. The consortium will manage the central database CIS and the English Court was in charge of implementing the necessary systems and providing advice to all local operators to interconnect with the system. Eye that both companies have spoken operations of number portability in Mexico, Brazil and the Dominican Republic. Moreover, the English Court intervenes in the telephony market in Spain, they are the owners of Telecor, a company that provides telephone service, ADSL, cable TV, phones, etc.. Follow the post saying that only very large companies can buy "intelligent" solutions. Telefonica has invested more than $ 15 million in 1 year to adapt to the challenges of portability, tremendous cost, but we are talking about the largest operator in Peru. Without going to details Americatel has invested a few thousand and the solution is based on open source, Asterisk and MySQL basically. That this they can not implement the smaller companies? Beliefs about the difficulty of porting, consulting, etc, are only occurrences of the author. The portability regulations published over a year ago provides the methods, tables, columns, data types, etc. to have access to public! Consultation is a database and also gives freedom of choice in terms of methods of obtaining information (online, batch, and complete backup of the databases, etc). There is a cost of access? Sure, the cost of interconnection to the administrator of the database. I can bet that the author, and not even know that it is no such administrator, has not been able to contact the manager and ask about your particular case. On the rest of the post is more to say, and I told them that Americatel has implemented a MySQL + Linux + Asterisk interconnected with the manager gives portability data base, so their "fear" about the lack of respect for standards and ignorance of the technologies mentioned is unfounded. Moreover I think that is so wrong if you believe that technologies such as SOAP, webservices, XMLs can support the level of traffic, speed and response times required by the call management. Of course, the author has thought Siqueros read the regulations and realize that access a daily batch of numbers ported the may charge a local basis where only the numbers are ported to address those numbers corresponding to the operator and the other numbers follow the numbering plan rules that apply for a long time.
- The last part of the post, I can tell that obviously low level providers definitely will not defend any company. On the greed of "our" operators, I remind the author that Telefónica operates under a concession. All infrastructure will be returned to the state in years, and in much better conditions in which they were delivered, an increase of more than 10x teconologia level, size and speed. Nationality remind you that these companies are the largest generators of employment in Peru, not only directly but also indirectly by allowing companies that offer solutions exist as the offers, and others engaged in selling phones vendors that offer calls to cell phones as if they were public phones. Besides that Telefonica is one of the biggest spreader of profits, I can tell the author that Movistar will distribute more than 16 salaries in earnings per worker next year, no mean no? And those are the big greedy?
I missed other errors in the post I mention, because I am I also aware that I must be making mistakes in grammar, spelling and linguistics in general.
For those interested in reading a stroke of bad information, please read the post here
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I am not a "believer" in the portability, I think rather that the progress of the market in other parts of the world has led to solutions such as "Google Voice", a service that allows a unified number includes other numbers as cell phones, office, home, etc. These systems are more flexile, and the income of portability probably have closed the door of this type of service for several more years.
A final theme, the "half-thought ideas" that are present in all levels of government in Peru, and throughout the private sector, I have witnessed many of them through my work, and I could see that even this is a bad characteristic of Peru, I have seen many Latinos with the same type of problem. It takes a much more systemic and comprehensive, but I think not many people can have it.
I can not do more than recommend the author to take a spoonful of your medicine and stop thinking halfway and be well informed prior to deceive its readers with such a collection of lies. Would remove the post because the fix would have to clear both the post original would probably be empty.
I hope this post can reach more people who can report correctly though I know that my blog is widely read.
