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

Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com)
Fri, 04 Oct 1996 10:01:56 -0700

Corey Hauer wrote:
>
> >> 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.

Actually, unknown to most, MCI is about to come it and slap
most LECs by offering about $12 POTS lines over channelized
T1s and when the switch is upgraded (many are already done)
you will be able to get PRIs rather than the channelized T1
for about $12/B channel. I can't wait to make the call
to US Worst to ask for the price of PRIs, and then ask them
to cancel 200 POTS lines cause they rape and pillage us so
bad. Maybe oneday they will learn.

-- 
Dale E. Reed Jr.  (daler@iea.com)
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