[asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

I'm actually having trouble understanding what people would order BRI for 
over POTS lines.  The only thing I ever used ISDN for was net access, and 
it was trumped by DSL a decade ago.  Do you get some extra service with 
your 2B service over ordering two POTS lines?

j

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Frank Bulk wrote:

> At least for this telco, ISN and BRI was a money-loser.  We've spent more
> time trouble-shooting those connections (on behalf of the customers) than we
> ever made in monthly or per-minute charges.
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> Frank
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> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Wilton Helm
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:34 PM
> To: Asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?
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>> I wonder if BRI would have gotten traction if it offered PRI functionality
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> I can't say for sure, and don't even know the differences in functionality,
> but you may be right.  When I last ordered DID I couldn't justify PRI so
> brought it in as analog.  At that point in time and with that LEC PRI wasn't
> cost effective, even if I filled it up.  I could have filled a 24B but it
> would have left my entire facility at the mercy of a single circuit, which
> isn't very smart.
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> To me the thing that did the most to insure the demise of BRI in the US was
> the insane pricing.  Most LECs saw it as a large cash cow and priced it with
> large margins (keep in mind it is cheaper for a CO to export two LDNs on a
> BRI than on two POTS, but most priced a BRI at about 4x a POTS).  Most LECs
> only offered it as measured service with stiff per minute charges even on
> local calls.  Many charged stiff rates for connect time in data mode (in
> fact some would get around this by treating data as voice).  Their greed
> backfired, and of course when DSL offered more bandwidth for considerably
> less money, the bottom fell out of the data side.  The only LEC I knew that
> didn't go down this path was QWEST.  They priced it flat rate at rates that
> were competitive with POTS and I leased them for every site I managed.  They
> offered higher quality and more features than POTS.
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> Wilton
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