[#XWM-610908]: Re: [enum-wg] ENUM Adoption - Does a business case matter?

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The registry is non-profit, but has to be payed.
We did marketing research, and large companies are happy to get a discount for their large numberblock if they maintain part of the tree themselves.
That's how they see it. They maintain their own zone and the administration per number, and in exchange they pay only 0,25 per number in stead of 5,-.
It's seen as a bulk discount.
It's either that, or the price of a single registration has to be higher, making it too expensive for a consumer with a one phonenumber entry.
We wanted the price for a single number registration to be as low as possible so that the value per registration would be as high as possible for a registrant.

I actually think it doesn't kill ENUM, but makes it more available to the consumers that are most on their pennies.
Companies usually see the value in saving cost, and calculate on a per number basis, not per delegation.

Antoin Verschuren

Technical Policy Advisor SIDN
Utrechtseweg 310, PO Box 5022, 6802 EA Arnhem, The Netherlands

P: +31 26 3525500  F: +31 26 3525505  M: +31 6 23368970
mailto:antoin.verschuren at sidn.nl  xmpp:antoin at jabber.sidn.nl  http://www.sidn.nl/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: enum-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:enum-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of
> Marian Durkovic
> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:38 AM
> To: enum-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [#XWM-610908]: Re: [enum-wg] ENUM Adoption - Does a business
> case matter?
> 
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:05:50PM +0200, Antoin Verschuren wrote:
> > We don't have pre-fixes like in DE or AT. We have a fixed numberplan.
> All numbers have the same length, but you can own a thousand of them in
> one numberblock.
> > (or 10, or 100, or 10.000) You are not allowed to extend your numbers
> (on the PSTN).
> >
> > The numbering plan in NL is such that numberblocks assigned to end
> customers are not split up. The end customer has numberportability for the
> complete numberblock.
> > When that end-customer hands in their numberblock, the ENUM delegation
> for that block is deleted because it doesn't validate to the one end-
> customer anymore.
> >
> > For example, SIDN has a numberblock of 100 numbers. +31263525500 -
> +31263525599.
> > All these 100 numbers have the same end customer: SIDN.
> > So we delegate 5.5.2.5.3.6.2.1.3.e164.arpa to SIDN's nameservers.
> 
> Do I read this right ?! Are you really charging upto 2500 € for one single
> delegation just because it happens a few subdomains higher in the ENUM
> tree?
> So a company or university with four digit extensions in NL would have to
> pay
> 100+ times more than another one in DE, AT or CZ ?! (note that CZ uses
> fixed
> numbering plan like NL)
> 
> This is unbelievable... User ENUM is hardly alive anyway, and such pricing
> schemes will kill it completely. And I bet this kind of pricing heavily
> violates EU anti-monopoly legislation, since a dominant player is not
> allowed to charge different prices for the same service.
> 
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