[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uhh...Yes, you pay per-minute for outbound PRIs with pretty much every carrier, even for local calls. You usually pay very very low rate on local (note, not intralata toll) calls, but you still pay (0.004$/minute sounds about right on that). 0.004$/minute is way too low even for non-blended.
As you've already noticed in other messages, this is very market-dependent. In Phoenix (and all of Arizona), retail PRIs come with free local outbound calling, and free inbound calling. There are no per-minute charges for any calls that do not involve either an IXC or operator services. That is the case with the ILEC (QWest) and all CLECs I know of in the market. Some carriers do offer inbound-only PRI as well, with lower per-channel costs (and coverage across multiple NPAs in the same local calling area).
Now you _can_ buy wholesale PRI (poor man's SS7/IMT), in which case you pay a lower per-channel cost and per-minute usage charges. This doesn't make any sense business-wise until you are buying a large number of channels, though.
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