On 7/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Pounder</b> <<a href="mailto:JonP@inline.net">JonP@inline.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
><br>> I think if Sangoma heard from enough interested North American users,<br>> they would write the driver.<br><br>doesn't it seem strange they went to the trouble to get the fcc<br>certification (as per their site) if it doesn't understand the north
<br>american signalling ?<br><br></blockquote><div><br>I wonder if this is issue is largely limited to to Canada. (thus limiting the market) In the states I think you can get PRI for around $250. Am I right? In Canada, you have to have about 9 or 10 lines to justify a PRI. At $250, the cost and added features could justify PRI at around 4 lines. Mind you, that still leaves a whole tonne of systems at the 4 lines and under mark.
<br><br>The next time a Sangoma staffer comes out to a Toronto Asterisk User Group meeting, I'll get 'em all tipsy and make them sign something about committing to supporting the North American BRI. :-)<br></div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">PS - to whoever it was that said they got the telus quote ... what<br>province was that in ? In Ontario Telus is just not interested in
<br>selling BRI (could just be the sales rep too, he is kind of lazy. here<br>though its a resale of a bell canada service though, and btw whew that<br>telus/bell merger plan last week died quickly thank goodness,<br>combining bad and worse never makes anything good)
</blockquote><div><br>I think that's a regulatory thing. In Ontario, Telus is considered a competitor not the incumbent. I think that only the incumbent in any area is bound by the tariffs. Out west it would be the opposite, Telus would be the incumbent there.
<br> <br>For anyone who' interested, I decided to read up a bit and found an interesting primer.<br><br><a href="http://www.ralphb.net/ISDN/">http://www.ralphb.net/ISDN/</a><br><br>Tzafrir: It discusses North America specifically and identifies the specific ITU Q-Series documents that define the various protocol layers.
<br><br></div></div>Dave<br>