Re: PM-3 doesn't do BRI, solution.

Corey Hauer (hauer@deskmedia.com)
Fri, 04 Oct 1996 01:49:27 -0500

>> The actual hardware cost for such a beast would actually be pretty
>> minimal, perhaps with a street price of $2K or less.
>I would be willing to pay as much as 2 months savings or $3500 per PRI
>generated in order to save $35000/mo and user the PM3! And $2k would be
>even better!
>
>> E.g. it could accept 11 BRI circuits and present them as a 22 PRI
>> B channels, or turn 15 into an E1.
>
>> I'd buy one.
>
>I would buy 20! (and enjoy teaching USWorst the folly of 'premium
>pricing'; thats their excuse for why they charge more for a service that
>costs less.)

It obvious that a PM3 that supported BRI would be desired by many.

US West serves 17 states and as you can easily find on their web page
their PRI tarriff is 5-6 times as much as 12 BRI's in each of the 17
states.

I've already heard Ameritech Chicago tariffs quoted in the 4X 12-BRI
range. We could chime off RBOCs where PRI is not affordable all
day long. It's obvious that we all have cheap BRI because the PUCs
wanted to help consumers get ISDN. The same PUCs allowed the
RBOCs to rape and pillage on PRI to make up for it.

I can't even get PRI in most of my markets, but I can get cheap BRI
(I pay about $10 more for BRI than I pay for measured service POTS
with hunting). Bottom line is that BRI is _less_ than two POTS lines
and could actually reduce my costs over POTS using a BRI-based
PM3-like box.

At this point the best customers for PM3's sound a lot like the
RBOCs to me since PRI is easy/cheap for them.

How about a PM2i with DSP modems Livingston?

-Corey