[asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

[Jon Pounder]

Wilton Helm wrote:

Technical aspects aside, I have seen way too many voip providers come 
and go, meantime the local phone company enjoys pretty much a monopoly 
and is not in any financial trouble - to me this is the biggest reason 
for wanting a pots or bri or t1, etc over voip from a smaller company. 
When I pickup the phone I want a dial tone I can rely on.
> I'm with you on this.  A VoIP trunking solution is never going to 
> equal a LEC PSTN solution.  It may be adequate for some purposes, but 
> I'm not about to dump my BRI for a pair of IP numbers.  The trade-offs 
> aren't worth the small cost savings for me.  Just the packetized 
> delays (not to mention internet latency) are going to degrade things 
> somewhat.  Your example about FAX is a good one.  Yes, there are 
> work-arounds, but when you have customers to keep happy, meeting their 
> expectations in an intuitive manner is critical.  OTOH, I certainly 
> like the idea of an open source PABX doing my internal routing.  I've 
> done some stuff with commercial PABXs that few people would attempt.  
> I've also failed to do things because the PABX OS didn't support what 
> I wanted to do.  That's one reason I once wrote my own.
>  
> Wilton
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