[Asterisk-Users] BRI dead in USA?

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 14:15, Scott Stingel wrote:
> Brian-
> 
> Wow - that is high!
> I got quoted only $35/month for BRI (and a hefty installation) - not too
> bad.  But the comment about "no CLI" scared me off.

In Nashville, it is $90/month for a BRI without per minute charges for
business. I remember paying $35/month for residential about 10 years or
so ago.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of brian
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:46 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA?
> 
> Well they fail to realize that ISDN is used for more than data.  I just
> wanna scream at them and say "IT DOES VOICE TO YOU NINNY!".. Rates are far
> from reasonable.  167/mth here is what I would have to pay for ISDN-BRI.
> 
> SBC is lame.
> 
> bkw
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> > admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Scott Stingel
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:37 AM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA?
> >
> > 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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