<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Pounder</b> <<a href="mailto:JonP@inline.net">JonP@inline.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quoting Darren Wright <<a href="mailto:dwright@d2-tech.com">dwright@d2-tech.com</a>>:<br><br>> I wonder if this is issue is largely limited to to Canada. (thus<br>> limiting the market) In the states I think you can get PRI for around
<br>> $250. Am I right? In Canada, you have to have about 9 or 10 lines to<br>> justify a PRI. At $250, the cost and added features could justify PRI<br>> at around 4 lines. Mind you, that still leaves a whole tonne of systems
<br>> at the 4 lines and under mark.<br>><br><br>how do you come up with that ? (what are you assuming for line and pri<br>costs ?)<br><br>when we had a bunch of lines (10+) through an at&t reseller in toronto<br>
we were paying $35 each with all the features and I have never seen<br>any sort of t1 less than about $700 in Ontario, so that works out to<br>about 20 lines for breakeven - at that point what are you really<br>gaining except making it easier on the telco to deliver, yet you have
<br>all your eggs in one basket and if there is a hardware or physical<br>plant issue you are completely down.</blockquote><div><br>I was wrong on a few counts here. You're right. I was using a very optimistic price for PRI service of around $550 which you can get in Toronto. And I was using list pricing for Bell's featureful line that's like centrex lite, the name is something like 'direct line'. That is around $55 at full price. So you're right, I wasn't comparing apples to apples. If you negotiate your analog line price as agressively as your PRI price then you need more channels to make sense.
<br><br>The other thing that I was thinking is that I prefer PRI to analog so much that I even if it cost a hundred bucks more a month, it's still attractive to me.<br><br>All that tends to support our contention that there should be a market for NA BRI support. You'd think many installations would benefit.
<br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> No way.....message rates lines hover at $350, and flat rate's run
<br>> $450-$500 or so.</blockquote><div><br>Mea Culpa on that count too. I'll stop guessing at pricing now. :-)<br> </div></div>Dave<br>