[Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA?

[Dave O'Shea]

SBC never was overly enthusiastic about BRI circuits; when it was a
popular technolgy 7-10 years ago they priced it too high, and it
languished in limbo since it was too expensive for residential, but
too cheap to interest the corporate sales force, who didn't want to
undercut T1 sales. I helped a customer order a few for a
videoconferencing project recently, and it was such a nightmare that
the project was shelved and an IP-based solution was put in.

You can't order CID service on the circuit because the provisioning
system only knows about CID on POTS lines, but AFAIK, it's an inherent
part of the BRI specification, and it's always worked on every BRI
I've tried it on, though the sales rep is always confused by the
"it's-there-but-it's-not-there" syndrome.



On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:36:59 -0700, Scott Stingel <scott at evtmedia.com> 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.
> 
> Thanks
> Scott Stingel
> 
> Scott M. Stingel
> President,
> Emerging Voice Technology, Inc.
> Palo Alto California & London England
> www.evtmedia.com
> 
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