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Communications credits territory based availability
Thanks Tom, that definitely makes it clear. Lets hope that there are some developments on the expansion of the territories where calling plans are available soon. What I find odd is that there haven't been any new territories entering preview. One can only hope that this is because there will be some sort of "big bang" roll out of calling plans (EU wide maybe) straight to GA because if there isn't then the rollout of SfB as a global telephone solution looks to have stalled. I am sure that is not the case but it would be most disappointing if it was.
I have no insider knowledge, but based on countries each having Unique legal requirements, I wouldn't anticipate a "big bang" anything I'm afraid.
Would love to be proved wrong ;-)
You are probably correct that individual country telco licensing issues (and inter telco interconnect agreements) probably work against a "big bang" (apart from MAYBE in the EU) but that is what makes the lack of new territories entering preview so puzzling. Of course one way of getting a" big bang" would be for Microsoft to buy a Telco with a reasonable international footprint. Certainly no news on new territories for PSTN calling for 9 months is a very strange and frankly disappointing situation.