[asterisk-biz] What do you pay for PRI in the US?

[Steve Totaro]

asterisk_help at iwishi.nu wrote:
>
>> True enough.  There is a trunk for each subscriber but the 
>> ingress/egress certainly could not handle all of those trunks 
>> simultaneously.  I would still want to know a ratio going into it, 
>> otherwise, I would just take my chances with a real PRI for slightly 
>> more money.
>
> And a "real PRI" has exactly the same issue. The only thing a real PRI 
> has over the nontraditional PRI is that you ASSUME the company is 
> larger and has experenced engineers to monitor the network.
>
> I remember in Minnesota when MCI hit the local market. The sales guys 
> sold to ISP's left and right. Their service fell flat on it's ass each 
> time an ISP was connected. Next move, they disconnected exisiting ISP 
> accounts and made the front page of the news paper and headline on the 
> TV news. This was back in about early 1997.
>
> Ratio information only assumes you think you're a better engineer than 
> they are. Again as was pointed out, some customers might be grandma 
> and the other a telemarketer.

I am not arguing that fact but if a reseller is just selling trunks from 
a "real" telco, then isn't the issue of contention compounded?  There is 
a ratio of a ratio, correct?

Believe me, I know about grandmas and telemarketers.  I ran a call 
center with a TDM T3 from Global Crossing with a $30,000/mo phone bill. 

The fact of the matter is that Molten is marketing this to business 
users on a large scale (Brian said so himself), not grandmas.  If you 
put it in the proper context, maybe you will see my point of view.

Thanks,
Steve