Re: [Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA?

[Doug Shubert]

Tim, good point, and BRI's steal precious Cu pairs off the aging trunk lines. PRI costs in our area (northeast USA) were around $600/month a few years back. BTW, I found this interesting. Not much about a VoIP service though. Verizon Announces FTTP Rollout Verizon has announced that it will begin providing fiber-to-the-premises ("FTTP") in markets in California, Florida and Texas this year. Verizon said it intends to pass 1 million homes and businesses in parts of 9 states with fiber by the year-end. The new suite of fiber-optic services will be called Verizon Fios (FYE-ose). Verizon is offering three data speeds: 5 Mbps/2 Mbps for $34.95 a month as part of a calling package, or $39.95 a month stand-alone; 15 Mbps/2 Mbps for $44.95 a month as part of a calling package, or $49.95 a month stand-alone, and; 30 Mbps/5 Mbps at pricing to be announced later. The company plans a Fios video offering to give consumers an alternative to cable TV in 2005. Each consumer data offer includes the suite of services currently available to Verizon Online DSL customers at no additional charge, including: MSN Premium content; Verizon's new Broadband Beat entertainment portal optimized for high-speed access featuring news, games, streaming video and more; up to nine e-mail accounts with 30 megabytes (MB) of storage for the primary account and an additional 10 MB for each sub-account; address book and calendar; 10 MB personal Web space and a Web site building tool; and access to newsgroups. -Doug   Tim McKee wrote: They are definitely giving you the run-around. Call one of the surviving CLECs. With good negotiation you can get a PRI for <$600/mo. BRIs are harder to get, they require special hardware on the line side of the switch and many shelfs don't support them or the advanced features. (They were sort of force-fitted into an existing analog structure.) tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of brian Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA? Well they fail to realize that ISDN is used for more than data. I just wanna scream at them and say "IT DOES VOICE TO YOU NINNY!".. Rates are far from reasonable. 167/mth here is what I would have to pay for ISDN-BRI. SBC is lame. bkw -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott Stingel Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] PRI dead in USA? Hi- Because a majority of my customers are in Europe, I've gotten quite used to working with ISDN (PRI) and BRI on a regular basis. Recently one of my customers asked me if I could terminate a few lines locally here in the USA (California), so I called up SBC to enquire as to how much it would cost to install a BRI here. Although the rates were reasonable (except the installation), I got the distinct impression that they really didn't want to install BRI's. Their comments were "well, BRI is getting quite antiquated", and the like. They said with the advent of ADSL, there's not much of a market anymore, as most of past usage was modem related. I'm a little worried about the pricing going up, and availability going down in the near future. I don't have the volume yet to justify PRI. What are other's experience in the US with BRI? Also, they mentioned that I couldn't get caller ID with the BRI service, which I thought was a built- in feature. Thanks Scott Stingel Scott M. Stingel President, Emerging Voice Technology, Inc. Palo Alto California & London England www.evtmedia.com _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users