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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Geoff McQueen
<geoff.mcqu...@internetrix.com.au> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> I've heard Distribute IT have a good price offshore deal hooked up. The ZA connection
> was merely speculative, but I'm told they have about a 1/7th purchasing power exchange
> rate, yet first world infrastructure for interconnects, so they are worth looking at.
>
> There could be much better deals out there; but sub 5c/message isn't unheard of (although
> the preparedness of some networks to receive messages from these networks isn't as solid
> as paying 20c or so through an AU gateway)

indeed; the thing you pay for in messaging is reliability. I wouldn't
be going offshore for that.


> Geoff

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noon silky
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