[enum-wg] Austria starts with the ENUM-based number range

Hi,

On 2005/04/19 15:04, Carsten Schiefner <enumvoipsip.cs at schiefner.de> wrote:
> Otmar Lendl wrote:
> >>- What will be 780 termination costs like?
> >
> >Termination costs as seen by the end-user, or termination
> >costs between carriers?
> 
> I wouldn't mind learning about both figures...

Right now, I doubt that they have been decided on yet. 

On the interconnection side, I expect that carriers will start with
the usual PSTN interconnection rates (not the mobile ones).

On the end-user side, I guess the tariffs will be in the 
range of coorporate numbers and 0720 numbers. This might
be slightly higher than local calls but will probably
not exceed national calling.

Not all carriers here still make a decision between local
and national calls.

> >>- Is that being set by RTR, the Austrian regulator?
> >
> >The RTR has specified only "quellnetztarifiert", meaning that the
> >originating network is free to set a price they charge to
> >someone calling a 0780 number. Based on hints appearing in
> >www.telekom.at, I'd expect that to be somewhere between local
> >and national tariffs for TA customers.
> >
> >Generally speaking, the RTR does not interfere in the pricing of
> >carrier-carrier settlement regimes unless one of the parties complains.
> 
> The possibility to complain of course comprise the user "party" as well, 
> right?

I'm not a laywer and don't know if consumers have a formal standing, but
my guess here is that RTR will not intervene unless carriers use that
number-range as a trap by charging outragious tariffs.

That side is supposed to be solved by competition amoungst the telcos.
IMHO if e.g. Telekom Austria overcharges here, than some of the
alternative telcos will counter with special call-by-call or
preselection offers which route calls to their gateway.

As I see it, we'll have half-way decent prices for the first year,
and if we will see decent uptake on the usage than deploying more
gateways makes sense which then drives down the tariffs.

IMHO that number range is very well suited for flat-rate style pricing
as you don't have to pay other parties by the minute once you have
your own gateway. 

We'll see.

/ol
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< Otmar Lendl (lendl at nic.at) | nic.at Systems Engineer >