[enum-wg] ENUM Adoption - Does a business case matter?

Hi Mark,
Hi all,

> It is cheap for Skype / other operators to use ENUM, where possible, for
> outgoing calls. They can charge their clients for the normal rate, but save
> a few cents (on long calls).

I agree with this. I believe that skype doesn't support it because it
will damage their own network value more that it would add. They will
connect to ENUM when the size of the tree gets "larger". But they will
fight til the end... I'm sure.

> We are currently looking into ENUM and are
> planning to start using ENUM (starting with outgoing calls and incoming will
> follow soon if everything goes as planned).

Excelent. Look at other trees also. In Portugal there are/will be soon
more thousands of numbers available on nrenum.net. The NREN is
commited to ENUM, but since there isn't any advance from the
regulator... a solution had to be persued. nrenum.net is also being
used in other countries (10!).

> If for example a big telco starts using ENUM for landlines it would be great
> start.

That is the "critical mass" that I was talking about.

> A weak point for ENUM is that you need an ENUM domain per number and these
> are not really used and at the moment to expensive compared to the savings.

Do you have prices. I've found the Austrian case and it goes about
20cents/month per each ENUM domain/number. Do you have more prices,
from other countries?

What about registrars? I've found several types of those. (types =
diferent types of companies). There are hardware makers that make iPBX
boxes and "offer" ENUM registers to their clients bundled on the
montlhy fee for support of the hardware. If you charge 5€/number for
suport, you can pay 0,15€ to ENUM...

Thank you all,

Rui Ribeiro
racribeiro at gmail.com