Re: On-going cost effectiveness of PM3?

Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 20:05:23 -0600

> cost about $300 per month MORE than individual phone lines. The
channel bank
> at the central office, i am told, is required to permit users to
access any of
> the 24 T1 channels by simply dialing a single phone number as they
do now. If
> i could avoid the channel bank, the cost would be some what less.

Well, this sounds screwed to me, since if they use a channel bank at
the CO, you will NOT be able to do x2 technology. They should be
able to break a T1 directly out of the switch. GTE is offering that
to me off a very old DMX-10 (I think its DMX, or something like
that), no analog stage at this CO at that point... Unluckily there
aren't enough customers out of this area that I could even consider
supporting x2 for just them (there is an analog stage into the
DMX-100 in the central 'break out' town).

JS