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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.

Hence, the seemingly random allocations of places with various phone
services. Also up here, the when the phone company is upgrading switching
centres for new services, they don't decide where to place the services
based on potential income, but based on which switching centre is the most
behind the times. Hence, my particular housing block was one of the last
places to get Call Waiting, because we had one of the cleanest phone
signals during the Pre-Call Waiting area.

So, surprise, surprise, the phone company is not try to seperate the rich
and the poor, or for that matter oppressing the proletariat at all. (Where
did these posts come from anyway?) Perhaps things are a little different
there in the States, but I suspect the fundamental reality is that the
phone companies are trying there hardest to get their services everywhere,
because right now it's somewhat like the California Gold Rush: if you don't
grab the land, someone else will, and there might be gold underneath it!!!

Live long and prosper off copywrite lawsuits. ;-)

--Chris
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--Bo ("the One who Knows")