[Asterisk-Users] OT: PRI costs in US

[Brian Johnson]

In general, I find that most items are available in Canada for about the same price
as available in US locations - at a one to one exchange rate (ie cost for
restaurants, consumer tech hardware, natural gas, lumber, electricity, gasoline)

Actually, I think we've had cheaper gasoline for a couple of years now but we just
had a big increase so I don't know if that is still true (when you convert volumes
and currencies ... currently $0.825/Litre where I am = $1.80/USGal)

I don't know economics but we seem to be able to get pretty much everything that is
available elsewhere and a lot of it cheaper than it's available in the source
country - go figure

It seems to be harder to find tech items on the net from Canada though - unless it's
mainstream consumer items



Wade Weppler (weppler at wwworks-inc.com) wrote*:
>
>I can confirm Canadian pricing.  I pay Ma Bell just over $40CAN per line,
>and I've got a 512K dedicated/1Mb burstable fiber for $395CAN.  $1000CAN for
>3Mb sounds about right.
>
>-wade
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>> admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of tmassey at obscorp.com
>> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 9:37 PM
>> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: PRI costs in US
>>
>> asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com wrote on 03/03/2003 09:02:52 AM:
>>
>> > I don't think I'd be stepping on toes if I told you guys we're paying
>> about
>> > $35/month per analog line with callerid, line hunting, call waiting,
>> etc, etc
>> > (basically the works minus voice mail) through AT&T
>> >
>> > That's Canadian so you'll have to work out the currency conversion
>> > ie $1 USD = $1.65 CND
>>
>> I've noticed that telco costs seem to be dramatically lower in Canada. For
>> example, one of my clients has a 3Mbit FIBER Internet connection from AT&T
>> for $1000/month CAD, and this is not that unusual.  They had to pay about
>> $5000 to get the fiber run, but for that price, so would I!
>>
>> Is this consistent?  If so, I'm moving:  living in Detroit, Michigan, I'm
>> just a few miles from the border already!  I love our neighbor to the
>> south...  :)
>>
>> Tim Massey
>>
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