[Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA?

[Scott Stingel]

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
www.evtmedia.com