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Tim,<br>
good point, and BRI's steal precious Cu pairs off the aging trunk lines.<br>
PRI costs in our area (northeast USA) were around $600/month a few
years back.<br>
<br>
BTW, I found this interesting. Not much about a VoIP service though.<br>
<pre wrap="">Verizon Announces FTTP Rollout
Verizon has announced that it will begin providing fiber-to-the-premises
("FTTP") in markets in California, Florida and Texas this year. Verizon
said it intends to pass 1 million homes and businesses in parts of 9 states
with fiber by the year-end. The new suite of fiber-optic services will be
called Verizon Fios (FYE-ose). Verizon is offering three data speeds: 5
Mbps/2 Mbps for $34.95 a month as part of a calling package, or $39.95 a
month stand-alone; 15 Mbps/2 Mbps for $44.95 a month as part of a calling
package, or $49.95 a month stand-alone, and; 30 Mbps/5 Mbps at pricing to be
announced later. The company plans a Fios video offering to give consumers
an alternative to cable TV in 2005. Each consumer data offer includes the
suite of services currently available to Verizon Online DSL customers at no
additional charge, including: MSN Premium content; Verizon's new Broadband
Beat entertainment portal optimized for high-speed access featuring news,
games, streaming video and more; up to nine e-mail accounts with 30
megabytes (MB) of storage for the primary account and an additional 10 MB
for each sub-account; address book and calendar; 10 MB personal Web space
and a Web site building tool; and access to newsgroups. </pre>
<br>
-Doug<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Tim McKee wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">They are definitely giving you the run-around. Call one of the surviving
CLECs. With good negotiation you can get a PRI for <$600/mo. BRIs are
harder to get, they require special hardware on the line side of the switch
and many shelfs don't support them or the advanced features. (They were
sort of force-fitted into an existing analog structure.)
tim
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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
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:asterisk-users">mailto:asterisk-users</a>-
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:admin@lists.digium.com">admin@lists.digium.com</a>] On Behalf Of Scott Stingel
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:37 AM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>
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
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.evtmedia.com">www.evtmedia.com</a>
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