[Asterisk-Users] RE:DID in the U.S.

[Jason Kawakami]

-----Original Message-----

Hello!

There is something I really don't get: As I ordered a PRI ISDN line in
Germany 
with DID, I had not to pay anything for a "DID number block", now I'm trying

to get a PRI ISDN in the U.S. (CA) and SBC wants to charge more than 200 
USD/month for numbers. I mean, this has nothing to do with DID, where 
everything that comes after the "base number" will be transmitted to the PBX

anyway. Wasn't DID invented to get rid of number blocks?

--you are being charged for the reservation of the numbers being dedicated
to you.  Each of those numbers represents revenue to the LEC so they are
damn well gonna charge you for reserving them.  Usually, they are $0.15 per
number in a block and the block size varies.

Jason Kawakami
www.optellabs.com	
Salt Lake City, UT