[Asterisk-biz] Costs for PRIs in Canada

[Jason Becker]

Jason Becker wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
> 
> Geoff Nordli wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know what I can expect to pay for a PRI in Canada?
>>
>> At what point does it make sense to move from analog lines to a PRI?
>>
>> What about the costs of using the extra PRI channels for Internet access?
> 
> 
> 
> There was some relevant discussion on *-users:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.pbx.asterisk.user/51755
> 
> If you find a provider that offers a service similar to XO or Electric 
> Lightwave in Canada please let me know.
> 
> Partial PRI is prohibitively expensive (deliberately so) from my 
> experience with Telcos. So there is this 9-16 trunk spot where a Channel 
> Bank is indicated.

I forgot to mention that another option we looked at were the 
Voicetronix OpenSwitch cards:

http://www.voicetronix.com/hda.htm

I'm not sure how much success people have had with these and *. I do 
remember seeing some posts to *-users. These cards were discussed 
occasionally before the 4-port FXO Digium cards became available. Now I 
rarely see anyhting about them.

Cheers

-- 
Jason Becker
Director & CEO
Coalescent Systems Inc.
403.244.8089
www.voxbox.ca