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<FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="11" DEFAULT="SIZE">I looked into it last year, and in Texas BRIs are only about $55/mo and include the optional calling features for which you pay extra with POTS. (Caller ID, call forwarding, etc)<BR>
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The roblem I ran into was that Euro standard hardware does not work on US standard BRI lines. And I could find literally no workable hardware. Since FXOs historixally have been a great weakness for Asterisk I think that BRIs would be a great alternative...if the hardware existed.<BR>
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I ended up simply call forwarding my remaining POTS lines to DID privided by an ITSP. These come in over my DSL line via IAX2.<BR>
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Michael Graves<BR>
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On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:38:07 -0400, Rusty Dekema wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR">>I dunno if it's THAT bad. I had a BRI line in the (relatively) podunk<BR>
>town of Kalamazoo, Michigan back in 1998. Sure, it took the phone<BR>
>company a couple of weeks to provision the service, but it takes the<BR>
>phone company a couple of weeks to do most anything in my experience.<BR>
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>The price was something like $45/mo for two channels and the same<BR>
>per-call/per-minute pricing scheme as POTS (no per-minute fee for<BR>
>incoming and local calls, regular LD pricing for LD, and 800 local<BR>
>outgoing calls included after which it was something like 6 cents per<BR>
>call).<BR>
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>The switch on ILEC's end was a DMS-100 implementing National ISDN-1. I<BR>
>really put the ISDN line through its paces too -- voice, data, bonded<BR>
>data, automatic bonding and de-bonding to allow for voice calls -- and<BR>
>everything always worked flawlessly.<BR>
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>I don't know what today's pricing is like for ISDN BRI what with all<BR>
>of the various mergers (at the time, I had service from Ameritech),<BR>
>but unless it has gone up significantly, BRI seems like the perfect<BR>
>type of trunk for an Asterisk system too small for a T1/PRI to be an<BR>
>affordable option.<BR>
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>-Rusty<BR>
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