[Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA?

[Tor Roberts]

Scott,
I have an SBC BRI in California. I would not worry about them going away 
anytime soon. SBC just does not like to sell them because they want you 
to buy a PRI instead. The main thing to worry about is getting that BRI 
working with *. There are only a couple of cards that work the National 
ISDN, one of which is the Eicon Diva Sever cards. I tried hooking my BRI 
up to * a while ago, but was not successful. I was using a cheapo card, 
so I'm sure that was part of the problem.
As far as callerid, I don't know if mine supports it. My BRI is 
connected to a portmaster, so I am not looking at callerid.
Anyway, Good luck!



Scott Stingel wrote:

>Hi-
>
>Because a majority of my customers are in Europe, I've gotten quite used to
>working with ISDN (PRI) and BRI on a regular basis.  Recently one of my
>customers asked me if I could terminate a few lines locally here in the USA
>(California), so I called up SBC to enquire as to how much it would cost to
>install a BRI here.
>
>Although the rates were reasonable (except the installation), I got the
>distinct impression that they really didn't want to install BRI's.  Their
>comments were "well, BRI is getting quite antiquated", and the like.  They
>said with the advent of ADSL, there's not much of a market anymore, as most
>of past usage was modem related.
>
>I'm a little worried about the pricing going up, and availability going down
>in the near future.  I don't have the volume yet to justify PRI.
>
>What are other's experience in the US with BRI?  Also, they mentioned that I
>couldn't get caller ID with the BRI service, which I thought was a built-in
>feature.
>
>Thanks
>Scott Stingel 
>
> 
> 
>Scott M. Stingel
>President,
>Emerging Voice Technology, Inc.
>Palo Alto California & London England
>www.evtmedia.com 
>
>
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