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In article <CBSMITH.94Jun3073350@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca> cbsmith@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Christopher Smith) writes:

>Just thought I'd point out to everyone that most telephone companies find
>ISDN can only be provided to areas that are within a certain distance of
>their switching centres (this is certainly the case here in Canada). This
>problem is regardless of the income of the area. Unless the ground is dug
>up all over the place and litterally huge amounts of money are spent, ISDN
>hasn't reached the stage where it's practicle to do everywhere.

That is exactly what we are talking about: installation of new outside plant.
The issue raised concerned where the coax and fiber were going to be
laid first. The info-underclass advocates were not concerned with ISDN
per se but rather with where the fiber was going. With fiber, distance
from the CO is no longer a factor.

Amusingly enough, when I walked out the door yesterday there was an
army of Pac*Bell trucks. Guess what they were doing! Hint: they were
installing fiber cable.

Sometimes the underprivileged do get things early on :-)

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