[Asterisk-Users] Qs about FXO/FXS cards

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:08 -0500, Daryl G. Jurbala wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> > Steven Critchfield
> > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 4:55 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Qs about FXO/FXS cards
> > 
> [...]
> > For business use, I would suggest you first find a BRI card 
> > you can use here in the states. Hint, bug Kapejod into making 
> > that 4 port card US ready. Then move any business user over 
> [...]
> 
> That might work out where you do your deployments.  In Verizon
> territory, you can get analog business lines with unlimited long
> distance and no metered minutes for about $37 a month.  A BRI costs you
> about double that for the loop, with metered minutes and bring your own
> LD.
> 
> Past the technology aspects, BRI just doesn't work here.  And I'm going
> to guess that pricing structure is similar in other areas as well.

$37 sounds cheap even for residential lines. As for BRI costing more,
don't forget for every BRI line, you get 2 bearers or the equivalent of
2 analog phone lines. 

BTW, the metered time on a BRI is not a verizon thing but rather your
local PSC or equiv was buffaloed into giving it up for the telco. The
PSC here was pretty reasonable before it was disbanded.

Here we still get business rate BRI is $90 a month after all taxes and
is unmetered for local calls.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>