[Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA?

[brian]

But I'm not speaking of BRI in a bandwidth/internet sense of the word.  I
want it for voice.

bkw

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Rich Allen
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:54 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA?
>
> i work for a local telco and BRI is avoided due to the amount of
> hardware it can take to get to an end user. DSL is simply easier and
> cheaper to provide. Not sure why you can't get caller id, i know when
> can add that feature to BRI
>
> - hcir
>
> On Jul 20, 2004, at 7:36 AM, 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.
>
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