[Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA?

[Rich Allen]

i work for a local telco and BRI is avoided due to the amount of 
hardware it can take to get to an end user. DSL is simply easier and 
cheaper to provide. Not sure why you can't get caller id, i know when 
can add that feature to BRI

- hcir

On Jul 20, 2004, at 7:36 AM, Scott Stingel wrote:

> 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.