[Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA?

[brian]

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Scott Stingel
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:37 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> 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
> www.evtmedia.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users