[Asterisk-biz] PRI Prices

[Matt Loretitsch]

You should be able to get a pri from someone else or a reseller who can
do it cheaper.  Last one was directly from SBC... 895.00 for two pri's
incoming at my current location.  incoming caller id should be part of
the deal.
 
DID's are basically your rights to a group of public numbers.  I have a
block of 400 DID numbers that come in over those two pri's.  Those do
cost additional money but I can't recall how much.  It wasn't cheap to
get them in the first place.
 
Your long distance (interstate I take it) rate is much too high.  We're
at less than 4.5 cents interstate with Qwest.
 
It's all a big mess.  Call someone big and get a rate, then take it back
to your local ilec and see if they'll help ya out otherwise go somewhere
else.
 
-Matt

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Brent Franks [mailto:brentasterisk at gmail.com] 
	Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 3:44 PM
	To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
	Subject: [Asterisk-biz] PRI Prices
	
	
	Hello,
	
	I recently begun researching PRI prices to expand the capacity
into our PBX (located in Northern Virginia).  I received a quote from
our ILEC, that seems a bit outrageous to me.
	
	Here is what was sent to me:
	
	2 Year Contract
	
	Recurring Charges (Monthly)
	Base PRI Price: $493.73/mo
	CallerID (Name+Num) for 23 Channels: $140.00/mo
	20 DID's: $20.25/mo with $725.00 setup fee
	
	Local Calling, .096 cents on each call (no per minute)
	Long Distance, 5.3 cents per minute (billed in 60 second
increments)
	
	Total Monthly: 653.98
	
	First issue, is the fact that CallerID is extra.  I thought this
was one of the reasons to go with a PRI, was it was included.  I've
never heard of PRI's w/o CID.
	
	Second, the first quote she sent did not have the DID's.  I told
her that we needed to use this for incoming calls.  Are DID's different
then incoming numbers?  I didn't think so, but she acted like it was.
	
	Does this price seem on the high side?  Northern VA seems to be
a realtively high competition area, hwoever I have found that a PRI can
only be ordered from the ILEC?
	
	Our desired setup was to have a PRI (For Inbound, with 3 or 4
numbers) and maintain 4 or 5 analog lines for outgoing (with unlimited
LD).
	
	Telco pricing is very confusing, and seems like its not very
small/medium size business friendly.
	
	Thanks in advance to any pointers anyone can provide!
	
	- brent
	
	

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