On 7/4/07, Jon Pounder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting Darren Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I wonder if this is issue is largely limited to to Canada. (thus > limiting the market) In the states I think you can get PRI for around > $250. Am I right? In Canada, you have to have about 9 or 10 lines to > justify a PRI. At $250, the cost and added features could justify PRI > at around 4 lines. Mind you, that still leaves a whole tonne of systems > at the 4 lines and under mark. > how do you come up with that ? (what are you assuming for line and pri costs ?) when we had a bunch of lines (10+) through an at&t reseller in toronto we were paying $35 each with all the features and I have never seen any sort of t1 less than about $700 in Ontario, so that works out to about 20 lines for breakeven - at that point what are you really gaining except making it easier on the telco to deliver, yet you have all your eggs in one basket and if there is a hardware or physical plant issue you are completely down.
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. 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. All that tends to support our contention that there should be a market for NA BRI support. You'd think many installations would benefit.
No way.....message rates lines hover at $350, and flat rate's run > $450-$500 or so.
Mea Culpa on that count too. I'll stop guessing at pricing now. :-) Dave
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