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

[Jon Pounder]

Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
YES !!!!

around here a business line with not many features is about $40/month, 
2B is $88, but you get all the callerid, did functionality, cnid, hunt, 
etc., but the big plus is you have a digital endpoint, so you take out 2 
sets of a/d d/a conversion and the potential for distortion in the 
analog line from your call path.

so you are getting all the a-la-carte features from analog included on a 
digital line at a price that actually works out cheaper per circuit than 
the analog if you need at least 2 of them, plus its digital. Let me say 
that again just in case - plus its digital.


> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>>> I wonder if BRI would have gotten traction if it offered PRI functionality
>>>       
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Wilton
>>
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>>     
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