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

Hi all!

On the price disucssion:

ENUM entries are free of charge in Germany as well as in Bulgaria.

Not that it helped a lot ...

Regards,
Torsten


Rui Ribeiro schrieb:
> 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