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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:40620 comp.sys.intel:38030 comp.unix.bsd:16650 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8627 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9826 comp.unix.misc:17340 comp.os.linux.development:24428 comp.os.linux.misc:48285 comp.os.386bsd.development:3333 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5703 comp.os.misc:4045 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news.widomaker.com!escape.widomaker.com!not-for-mail From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Charles Shannon Hendrix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: X on dial-in Date: 19 Jun 1995 09:54:24 -0400 Organization: Escape from Widomaker Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3s3vig$p3k@escape.widomaker.com> References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <790508225snz@apis.demon.co.uk> <D2rC7p.Lx@kerberos.demon.co.uk> <3fv9sg$8dp@villa.fc.net> <3s2pes$5f6@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: escape.widomaker.com rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) writes: >: For those of you in the UK, ISDN is alive and well in Austin, Texas. >: I've had 128kbps for 7 months now.. and at only $70/US including all >: taxes (the FCC has a rather large tax on ISDN for some reason). That's >: dirt cheap for high speed transmission over normal phone lines and with >: the ability to add and subtract channels on demand to meet your bandwidth >: needs, etc. Deployment around the rest of Texas is in progress. >: Just a happy ISDN user. >Thank your lucky Texas stars. Here in Framingham, Massachusetts it would >cost me $595 per month to have a 24 hour per day ISDN line that goes directly >to a Cisco router and T1, and $245 per month for ISDN that connects through a >POP to an ISDN that is shared among many users. Never mind the $600-800 >installation charge. These are both flat rate plans through ISPs, a direct >through NYNEX ISDN line would be $1000+ per month with the per minute charges. That's pretty dismal. In Virginia, Bell Atlantic is rapidly dropping ISDN prices. Right now I can have it for $39/month and it's only about $100 or so to install. The TA is about $350 and the local ISP's are planning fairly low rates. Still a bit high but a lot better than what it was a year ago. This fall Bell Atlantic is going to put in residential ISDN and it is supposed to be cheaper AND be free from the $0.02US per minute tarrif. >-- >Rick Kelly rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@progress.com -- csh --------------------------------------------------------------------------- shendrix@escape.widomaker.com | Linux 1.2.1 / BSD 2.0 http://www.widomaker.com/~shendrix | <<<< UNDER CONSTRUCTION >>>