Re: Impact of ISDN on Usenet?

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From: Christopher Davis
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 17:00

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 James> == James Borynec; AGT Researcher <james@cs.UAlberta.CA> 

 James> [...] no North American telephone company is agressively
 James> pursuing *RESIDENTIAL* ISDN.  They are all waiting for business
 James> to "pull it through".  In the words of one network marketing
 James> person "if someone wants it in their home, they can get it by
 James> paying business rates".

New England Telephone tariffs it at residential rates.  They're not
pushing it very hard, yet, because it's only available in small islands,
but it *is* available relatively cheaply.

We're going to get a couple BRI lines here at EFF and one at the
sysadmins' house, and do some testing/playing.
--
Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org> |    ECONOMIC OBSERVATIONS DEPARTMENT
System Manager & Postmaster     |  "There's always something going out of
Electronic Frontier Foundation  |      business in Central Square."
+1 617 864 0665  NIC: [CKD1]    |   -Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@eff.org>

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Subject: Re: Impact of ISDN on Usenet?
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