<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ken Rice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:krice@freeswitch.org">krice@freeswitch.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Lolol<br>
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Thanks funny... No such tool exists... Carriers, (especially US Carriers), intentionally make their rate decks hard to import so its harder to tell the the difference in their rates... If its not one thing its another... ie: LATA/OCN/Tier ratedecks as in level3 to prefix/lrn ratedecks in xls format with 1 line per cost ammount and 50 prefixes in 1 cell... <br>
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Not to mention the ratedeck you get from them this week is in format X and the one you get next week is Format Y<br>
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(ok sure, one could argue they don’t do this on purpose, but it sure could have fooled me)<br><font color="#888888">
<br><br></font></span></font></div></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" color="#000099">Hi Ken,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" color="#000099">Everything you said is true although I have yet to see a case where the same provider might change the format from week to week. The only time I see changes from the same provider is the format they give the base/original A-Z in, and the formats they then deliver rate updates in are usually different. But yes, the formats vary greatly from provider to provider. </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" color="#000099"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" color="#000099">Also, I think/(sort of) know that such tools exist but they exist within each company/VSP's to work with their own systems and none of them are particularly keen to share those tools since they take significant time and resources to develop (but then so does Freeswitch, but that's free ;)). So I was hoping if anyone on the list had developed this and was willing to share or even sell (at a reasonable price), we will still consider it. Also, the idea was to not expect that they would already have solved or created templates for each carrier out there but simply to be able to create our own templates for the carriers we choose to then feed to the tool for normalization. </font></div>
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