asterisk users - Sep 2006 - using residential voip for business?

I spoke to a voip provider today who mentioned that though they offer an
unlimited plan, if we use it for a business and it is over-utilized, it will be
canceled.
   
  is this true for all residential voip plans? i have a small office of about 4
or 5 phones. i tend to chose residential plans because they have the unlimited
offer for outgoing/incoming.
   
  thx
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:42:58 +0000
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i see. thanks for the info.

broadbandvoice@comcast.net wrote:    Its a trickish business, when they say
unlimited and you make more than 2500 minutes they cut you off.
   
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From: Christopher Corn <christopher_corn@yahoo.com> 
  I spoke to a voip provider today who mentioned that though they offer an
unlimited plan, if we use it for a business and it is over-utilized, it will be
canceled.
   
  is this true for all residential voip plans? i have a small office of about 4
or 5 phones. i tend to chose residential plans because they have the unlimited
offer for outgoing/incoming.
   
  thx
From: Christopher Corn <christopher_corn@yahoo.com>
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-users] using residential voip for business?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:42:58 +0000

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Christopher Corn wrote:
> I spoke to a voip provider today who mentioned that though they offer an 
> unlimited plan, if we use it for a business and it is over-utilized, it 
> will be canceled.
>  
> is this true for all residential voip plans? i have a small office of 
> about 4 or 5 phones. i tend to chose residential plans because they have 
> the unlimited offer for outgoing/incoming.
Yes, that can happen. Read the fine print.

They do this because business customers tend to use more minutes than 
residential customers, and an unlimited plan is always an ESTIMATION of 
usage.  It costs them for every minute you use, so they try to sell 
residential customers a block of time, and call it unlimited, which it really 
isn't (read the fine print).  I have found that unlimited plans VERY rarely 
cost less than paying per minute in any situation.  Do the math.

-Tim

On September 10, 2006 19:42, Christopher Corn wrote:
> I spoke to a voip provider today who mentioned that though they offer an
> unlimited plan, if we use it for a business and it is over-utilized, it
> will be canceled.
>
>   is this true for all residential voip plans? i have a small office of
> about 4 or 5 phones. i tend to chose residential plans because they have
> the unlimited offer for outgoing/incoming.
>
>   thx
-- 
Tim St. Pierre

IP telephony specialist
sip://5101@communicatefreely.net
Toronto: 647 722 6930
Toll-Free 1 888 488 6940
tim@communicatefreely.net
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