[VoIP] Hello from Slovenia!

[Russ Price]

windmill wrote:
> But surely these days it it only residential customers and very small 
> businesses that are using analogue phones and the market for Asterisk 
> must be seen as business customers by Digium. I don't know what the 
> situation in the US is but from what I have seen in the UK businesses 
> are quickly being pushed towards digital PBXs by BT and VOIP has a very 
> firm foothold here now. My thinking is that once there is no call for 
> analogue in the business market then support for FXO and FXS will 
> quickly die.

Analog phones will be around for a long while here - even whizbang 
fiber-to-the-home services provide an analog jack for the phones.  A 
standards war between Lucent and Nortel helped make BRI a spectacular 
failure in North America; while vendors and providers wasted time and 
money dithering over a national ISDN standard, dialup modem speeds 
jumped and eliminated much of the urgency to switch to ISDN.  Then DSL, 
cable, and fiber came on the scene, driving the final nails into BRI's 
coffin.  BRI service is barely even available any more, and one might 
have to dig deep to find someone at the phone company who even knows 
what the hell it is.

Digital PBX systems are very common here, too - but if they aren't big 
enough for a PRI, the PSTN connection will still be analog.  The big 
phone companies don't offer fractional T1 services, and fractional T1 
doesn't become cost-effective unless you need more than 12 lines.

	Russ
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