[Asterisk-Dev] Anyone interested in sharing PRI/T1 capacity in US (Virginia)?

Mon Apr 14 14:41:35 MST 2003

Your $700 PRI would most likely be for a local T1.  This means that inbound
calls are free for you and depending on the state or region you are in local
calls are also unlimited and free.

A dedicated long distance T1 would be down in the $300 range because it is
only a charge for the access line.  All traffic on these cost you a per
minute charge.  The only inbound allowed on a dedicated long distance T1 is
from an 800 number which you pay usage on.

A local PRI can also get low but usually in states that charge a per minute
usage fee on all local calling, usually about a penny a minute in your area.
Most inbound and outbound long distance runs about 5 to 6 cents and can get
down to 3 to 4 cents with those $1000 commitments.

What is the NPA NXX (area code and phone prefix) for your area?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Radich" <stever at bitshop.com>
To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 5:10 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Dev] Anyone interested in sharing PRI/T1 capacity in
US (Virginia)?

> I'm looking for some feedback from everyone that replied interested in
> sharing PRI/T1 capacity.
>
> I'm getting quotes of around $500-$700/month for PRI - This strikes me as
> high after people mentioned around $200/month for T1s.  Nobody seems to be
> getting quotes of $200/month though to me <argh>.
>
> Long distance also isn't striking me as any cheaper on these PRIs than
POTS
> lines that we have today.  Am I just getting quotes from the wrong places?
>
> Does this pricing sound about right to everyone else?
>
> I can get 800 # cheaper with some commit on usage on a separate circuit.
> I'm not sure if this is useful or not to everyone - I imagine some people
it
> is.
>
> If we have to commit to $1000/month then we'll need more than one or two
> people to commit to this (unless 1 or 2 need 8+ lines each).
>
> For those of your international we can terminate the calls to the US via
> Asterisk.
>
> Steve Radich - Colocation / Virtual Dedicated / Dedicated Servers
> BitShop, Inc. - http://www.bitshop.com - $149/month colo special
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Bielicki [mailto:Michael.Bielicki at Global-Gateway.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 3:27 PM
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Anyone interested in sharing PRI/T1 capacity i
n
> US (Virginia)?
>
> We are definately interested in both, the calls as well as the DID, can
you
> give me some more details and timeframes ?
> cheers
>
> Michael
>
> On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 18:23, alex at pilosoft.com shaped the electrons to
say:
> > If anyone wants NYC numbers, I'll do the same thing in LATA 132/224
(North
> > NJ and NYC). My cost is 20$/concurrent call (not per DID!), and you can
> > get as many DIDs as you want.
> >
> > I will also be able to terminate calls soon in LATA 132 for
sub-1c/minute.
> >
> > Alex Pilosov    | DSL, Colocation, Hosting Services
> > President | alex at pilosoft.com    (800) 710-7031
> > Pilosoft, Inc.  | http://www.pilosoft.com
> >
> > On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Steve Radich wrote:
> > > I got quite a few responses; I'm going to just reply to the list for
now
> > > as I'll be quite busy until about mid next week.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Our business in colo (really managed NT web servers more than colo) so
> > > this is outside the scope of what we do "officially".  I'm open to
> either
> > > doing this on an informal relationship with some kind of term
commitment
> > > from the partners (as we'll need to sign term commits on any capacity
of
> > > lines, being 24 to a T1 and that's more than we need ourselves) or a
> more
> > > formal business relationship (i.e. profitable and support as well as
SLA
> > > instead of an informal relationship, but support is probably better
left
> > > to Digium than BitShop for Asterisk today).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm open to suggestions from anyone on how to do this.  It looks like
> our
> > > costs come out to around $15/month per line if I'm not mistaken + cost
> of
> > > minutes. Bandwidth charges are probably not measurable amount.  I
don't
> > > have quotes yet on DID (?) numbers which I assume people will need
> > > instead of dialing into our number <grin>.  I also don't fully
> understand
> > > how local calls work - do you pay per minute like long distance - One
of
> > > our needs is local for cell phones?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I see this as more a grass-roots effort to help the Asterisk community
> > > more than a profit center; eventually we may want to turn this into
> > > profit for end users (otherwise we'd go broke if we didn't think about
> > > profits from time to time).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > If anyone interested in this has some time to bring me up to speed on
> > > what the various T1/PRI differences are, and what kind of services we
> > > need to ask the phone company for a quote on I'm open to their
feedback
> -
> > > I haven't had time yet to figure out exactly what we need in order to
> get
> > > a quote.  If someone has an idea of who to talk to in order to order a
> > > voice T1 please let me know.  I know AT&T, Deutsche Telecom, France
> > > Telecom, Japan Telecom, Qwest, RCN, SBC, SingTel (Singapore Telecom),
> > > Sprint, Teleglobe, Verizon, Ameritech, Cavalier Telecom, Cambrian
> > > Communications, Dominion Telecom, Dynegy, Global Crossing, Pacific
Bell,
> > > Time Warner Telecom, Williams are all on-net in the facility our data
> > > center is in, I don't know if they offer voice here though and don't
> have
> > > contacts at most of these.  As you can guess from this list of some of
> > > the vendors in our data center we're in a huge mega-colocation
facility
> > > on the east coast.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Probably what would work best is meeting either online via IRC / AIM
or
> > > just talking on the phone to go over this.  If everyone wants to set a
> > > time I can sign into the Asterisk IRC room to discuss this one night
> this
> > > coming week - Maybe Thursday around 9pm EST (Just a suggestion,
whenever
> > > is fine really).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Steve Radich - Colocation / Virtual Dedicated / Dedicated Servers
> > > BitShop, Inc. -  <http://www.bitshop.com/> http://www.bitshop.com -
> > > $149/month colo special
> >
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> --
> Michael Bielicki
> Managing Director
> TAAN Consultants Ltd
> http://www.global-gateway.net/
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