Unlimited Plan For Resellers

[livepublicity]

That sound good once i get a beta account, lol.
Let see if i can test one out.

thanks for the info.

[usa2k]

I set an account to one minute over its current usage.

I made a call, and waited a minute for the call to show up.
Now the account is decremented to 0 remaining.
Another test call took it to -1.
A third call took it to -2.

The current minutes setting do not take any kind of action that I know about.

[livepublicity]

uhmm, idk yet i never test on the reseller panel.

[VOIPoTim]

Does the VOIPO reseller panel can be configure to stop at let say 500 min, to avoid problems?


thanks

Yes, there is automatic limiting available in vPanel. Once hit, all calls go to busy signal. It will not cut someone off while in a call, but would prevent calls once it's hit.

All major players in the residential VoIP market have softcaps on their unlimited plans (generally 3K or 5K minutes and if you hit those, they will terminate service". With VOIPo, our softcap is 3K. Our average residential user uses around 400 minutes per month and the published national average for landlines was 472 the last I checked.

[livepublicity]

Yes, there is automatic limiting. Once hit, all calls go to busy signal. It will not cut someone off while in a call, but would prevent calls once it's hit.

All major players in the residential VoIP market have softcaps on their unlimited plans (generally 3K or 5K minutes and if you hit those, they will terminate service". With VOIPo, our softcap is 3K. Our average residential user uses around 400 minutes per month and the published national average for landlines was 472 the last I checked.

No they don't cut it, in my business i used to have it and i was running an international and local calling center (phone booth) and my usage was high.
My family has a business using them too, I'm going to get the web access to see how many minutes they used.
If you read my previous posts this is what i have in my home any doubt i can proof it and i don't get cut off all my service works fine all the time.
From 11/01/2009 to 11/30/2009
Total Number of Minutes: 3605:20
Total Number of Calls: 430

From 12/01/2009 to 12/30/2009
Total Number of Minutes: 3884:00
Total Number of Calls: 640

From 01/01/2010 to 01/30/2010
Total Number of Minutes: 8088:26
Total Number of Calls: 627

This month so far
From 02/01/2010 to 02/05/2010
Total Number of Minutes: 1069:55
Total Number of Calls: 75

[VOIPoTim]

No they don't cut it, in my business i used to have it and i was running an international and local calling center (phone booth) and my usage was high.
My family has a business using them too, I'm going to get the web access to see how many minutes they used.
If you read my previous posts this is what i have in my home any doubt i can proof it and i don't get cut off all my service works fine all the time.
From 11/01/2009 to 11/30/2009
Total Number of Minutes: 3605:20
Total Number of Calls: 430

From 12/01/2009 to 12/30/2009
Total Number of Minutes: 3884:00
Total Number of Calls: 640

From 01/01/2010 to 01/30/2010
Total Number of Minutes: 8088:26
Total Number of Calls: 627

This month so far
From 02/01/2010 to 02/05/2010
Total Number of Minutes: 1069:55
Total Number of Calls: 75

Are you talking about a discount residential VoIP service or a service provided by a cable company? Big difference.

[livepublicity]

optonline .net / cablevision .com offers small business and homes unlimited, since they offer internet service the phone is cheaper and the extra line too.

I need to offer something equal or competitive in NY/NJ/PA/MA/CT/ Long Island market.
I understand that i can target the low uses customers but i don't want to deal with overcharges.
Does the VOIPO reseller panel can be configure to stop at let say 500 min, to avoid problems?


thanks

Are you talking about a discount residential VoIP service or a service provided by a cable company? Big difference.

http://www.optimum.net / cablevision almost every one has it here.
they need there internet service to be able to use VOIPO!

[VOIPoTim]

http://www.optimum.net / cablevision almost every one has it here.
they need there internet service to be able to use VOIPO!

Yeah big big difference with that kind of service and a traditional VoIP service. With the cable services, they will actually likely make more money the more you use it. Since they have their own physical networks they get paid for every minute of every received call by other phone networks. So the more calls you get, the more $ they make and this typically heavily offsets the cost of outgoing calls, so they are less aggressive with usage limits.

VoIP providers such as Vonage, ViaTalk, VOIPo, PhonePower, etc are all more aggressive because we don't get paid for incoming call usage...we actually pay for it.

None of these providers would allow 8K minutes in a month, but with a cable service it's not as much of an issue.

[livepublicity]

You should try to study a unlimited plan to protect reseller where we pay a bit more for all plan even if they don't have a heavy usage but to be able to offer such of deal.
Remember ppl are always looking for better deal and we can't offer VOIPO services as a second line when theses companies offer 14.99 2nd line unlimited too.

[VOIPoTim]

Out of curiosity, if we could do an "unlimited" (with softcap) price on the DIDs of something around $5, but still stay usage-based/measured on the outgoing, is that something that would ease some fears?

In Tier 0 and Tier 1 areas, we could probably work that in.