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In article <5nsaha$bia$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
Michael Hrybyk <Michael.Hrybyk@ubc.ca> wrote:

>The fact is that ordinary business lines have usage limits as well, as do home 
>lines.

I believe I've read the appropriate sections of CRTC Tariff 1005
(BC Tel) covering POTS business and home service, and I saw nothing
about usage limits there. Do you have a reference for this information?

>This is not the way to win friends. BTW, just because a 56k leased line 
>point-to-point costs 300/mo does not imply that 2 chan ISDN nailed is a good 
>"deal" for the same $$$s.

Actually, 56K DDS starts at around $180, I believe, for connecting
two customers on the same switch. Going from, say, Richmond to
Vancouver may get up to $300 though.

>As for the extra expense the telco incurs due to nailing the chans, it is poor 
>engineering that leads to the current high priced situation. Offering an IDSL 
>solution would completely eliminate the problem, or pure circuit switched 
>schemes that bypass the expensive DMS core.

Indeed. And BC Tel is taking the right step with their ADSL roll-out,
which has been happening `any day now' for at least six months. :-/

But I don't think it's really an engineering concern that's driving
this delay in offering cheap, statistically multiplexed service to
customers. In the end SM services are going to take a big bite out
of, if not destroy entirely, TDM and circuit-switched services.
There goes long-distance revenue for a start....

cjs
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