Their repsonsibility ends at the demarc. In a house this is the box where either exists an RJ11 phone jack, or a pair of screw terminals. If you have multiple lines coming into a business, you probably will have a 66- or 110-style punchdown block where they terminate their lines (in some cases they might just hand you a multipair cable and wish you luck), and you can connect whatever you want to your side of the block. The tool for 66 and 110 blocks is very inexpensive and available at any Home Depot in the electrical aisle (data/telecom section), as are the RJ11 telephone jacks and wallplates you might need (or the RJ11 plugs and crimp tool, both also available at Home Depot). Total cost for the tools and materials for 6-7 lines (assuming mounting the lines near the punch block): about $40 (you don't need the top-of-the-line contractors' versions of the tools to do just a few of these).
Or, you can pay some guy in a hardhat about $80/hour plus/including whatever minimum charge they have for internal wiring, and then about 120% markup on the parts, something they would be very happy to charge you for. ;)
Another option is a fractional T1 and just voice channels (in my area, with TWTC, monthly it's about $38/channel plus $80 for the local loop, which for 6-7 business lines might actually be cheaper than 6-7 POTS business lines), and a single T100P card...and you don't get the myriad problems reported on this list involving the TDM cards.
Who is doing the hunting on your main phone number? Or do you not have a main phone number in this install?
Greg
Manjit Riat wrote:
We are going to be doing an asterisk install with 5-7 lines. So we are looking to get two TDM04B cards. Now I believe when you get your telco(Sprint, etc.) to install the lines they basically just leave the wires without jacks. Am I right? If so, then can we ask them to install the jacks or would we have to do them ourselves?
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