Re: On-going cost effectiveness of PM3?

DamienT (damient@livewire.digicity.net)
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 16:13:04 -0800

At 08:11 PM 11/22/96 PST, William Sommers wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:51:59 -0800 DamienT wrote:
>
> > Since then, an IXC has offered us local dialups all over half the
> > state at a wonderful rate...provided they can deliver this to us
> > over T-1.
> >
> > So it was bye-bye to PRI and Pac Bell's associated exhorbitant
> > pricing...and the PM3...at least for the immediate future.
>
>Exhorbitant? A PacBell PRI is only $580/mo. (and our 25-mile extended PRIs
>still run us under a grand) -- dirt-cheap compared to what others are
>reporting.

You're right, and I stand corrected. I was thinking of the BRI vs PRI
cost-per-B-channel comparison. Pac Bell certainly is more reasonable
in their tarrifs than most other RBOCs.