I am served by an ISDN-capable 5E switch, but am served remotely (I live in
the mountains and a 5E switch serves the entire valley that I live in). PacBell offers ISDN for the wire center in which the switch is physically located, but not in any of the remote wire centers.
My account executive speculates that this may be because they'd have to devote an entire channel bank to ISDN lines, and they wouldn't want to devote this much of their bandwidth unless I got 8 BRI lines. All I want is 2...
Does anybody know if this is the correct reason, or if there really is a technical reason that they can't put ISLUs in the remote wire center?
Kevin
P.S. For the person that asked about Oakland, CA - I'm pretty sure that
there is only 1A ESS there, so you'd have to get Switched 56. There
really are Pac*Bell folks that will let you know this. FYI, if you
are in Oakland in wire center OKLDCA11, you are served by a 1AESS switch.