Jeremy Mann wrote: >> you would think the telcos would be more interested in selling this >> to small/medium businesses that are not ready for a voice pri but >> it > > Since when to the telcos have the consumer's best interest in mind? > They can sell you a PRI at full loop cost with a smaller number of > channels in the hopes you will add to it, they will then charge you > an "upgrade fee" or some other inflated installation cost when in > reality it is almost 0 work to reprovision, pure profit for them.
People forget that the PSTN network was very expensive to build in the first place, which is why we had monopolies; the regulation of the market amounted to a form of subsidy. With that regulatory impetus gone, there's little incentive for the telcos to maintain their last-mile wireline infrastructure. There's precious little money in it. Under those circumstances, they can be expected to tweak things to make them worthwhile. I'm not defending them -- I'm just pointing out that this isn't just a simple case of "the damn telcos". We're living in a world of our own making. It's the price of having cheap long distance. > ATT is/was doing buyback promotions recently for 5 analog lines + a > full Data T1 for around $425 total(including loop cost), that's a > steal and frankly we would have been crazy to request BRI service. I cannot get partial PRI with fewer than 10 channels around here, so there's really *no* choice. -Stephen- _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
