Pricing issues...

James Allen's argumentations on Analysys.com about pricing for NGN fixed interconnection is not new. Despite this limitation, it is one of the first professional consultants that looks at the business prospective and the numbers behind the well-known dichotomy, interconnection and NGN.

How the wholesale interconnect market will evolve it is not for us to decide; the consequences of regulatory decisions on corporate strategy and business' rentability can have unpredictable consequences. Prudence is here a must!

Just think how the market can be distorted from a inflexible an outdated regulatory policy that have a predilection on a per-minute charging system while the retail market is going to the direction of flat rates or capacity based packages.

On the other end James concludes that there is a future per the old-fashioned price per minute system, non-geographic and premium number will continue to be priced as before.

I personally think that the termination of premium services will look more as the current pay-per view models. Probably a more transparent price-per-information (click) on-demand system, instead of remaining as it is know, a mix of setup and per minute charging.

Definitely more fashionable ... Isn't?