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<A title=brentasterisk@gmail.com href="mailto:brentasterisk@gmail.com">Brent
Franks</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 04, 2005 3:43
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Asterisk-biz] PRI Prices</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hello,<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Here is what
was sent to me:<BR><BR>2 Year Contract<BR><BR>Recurring Charges
(Monthly)<BR>Base PRI Price: $493.73/mo<BR>CallerID (Name+Num) for 23
Channels: $140.00/mo<BR>20 DID's: $20.25/mo with $725.00 setup
fee<BR><BR>Local Calling, .096 cents on each call (no per minute)<BR>Long
Distance, 5.3 cents per minute (billed in 60 second increments)<BR><BR>Total
Monthly: 653.98<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>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).<BR><BR>Telco pricing is very confusing, and seems like its not very
small/medium size business friendly.<BR><BR>Thanks in advance to any pointers
anyone can provide!<BR><BR>- brent<BR><BR>
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