On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Hans Witvliet wrote: > On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 21:35 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Hans Witvliet wrote: >> >>> But as BRI / (aso known as ISDN2) is more a thing of the past, i mean >>> pre-adsl, for the general public, the number of people with bri and >>> hence their potential market is (too) small, i fear. >> >> It's not a thing of the past in Europe - well, the UK and Germany and >> maybe France... ISDN2e is still the standard for small/medium business >> connectivity over here (UK). >> >> Probably mostly because there are still PBX installation monkeys selling >> it in preference to VoIP because they don't know how to make VoIP work. >> >> Much as I'd like to, I do not see ISDN2e going away in the UK in the next >> 10 years. > > Well, the fact that it is (still) popular in the UK, is merely that the > salespeople BT used some more of their braincels than the > telco-providers in NL. > > (I used to work at a manufacturer of telco equipment, so i knew about > pricing) > Basic handsets were way overpriced (40 times more expensive than regular > headsets) hence avoiding general interest. > > And if you wanted more than 2B channels, your were forced with a full E1 > line, with subscription fee for each B-channel. No thing like fractional > E1.
Hm. I have one customer with 8 ISDN2e ports - that's 16 channels. BT want to charge them several arms & legs to run fibre (for a mere 2Mb line, sheesh!), but are happy to supply more copper ISDN2e lines... Gordon -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users