On Nov 5, 2007, at 12:45 AM, Juha Heinanen wrote:
Miles Scruggs writes:
I guess the question is there really any other options?
yes, the internet way, i.e., don't try to charge per minute for sip-to-sip calls and use accounting records for unreliable "information only" purpose. calls that end up to/from pstn, you can reliable charge at the gateway where both signaling and media is terminated.
That works in theory, but still doesn't solve the case for network failure of the end user when the end user was put on hold by an upstream party. The carrier has no way to know the call ended (until the call is taken off hold upstream) as they aren't expecting any audio to be passed and we haven't sent a proper bye.
I think Ovidiu has the right solution, we'll see how we can implement this.
Thanks
Miles