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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!arg-home1.net-tel.co.uk!nobody From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cheap ISDN solutions [was: What's the state of ISDN support?] Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 12:12:02 +0100 Message-ID: <33423F01.167EB0E7@net-tel.co.uk> References: <33303AE2.503C@cmr.no> <5gqhjt$k3t$1@gail.ripco.com> <333226A6.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> <5hqooq$gtn@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38316 Brian Somers wrote: > > In article <333226A6.ABD322C@freebsd.org>, > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > [.....] > > Since I was also lucky enough to live close to work, I > > got a Centrex ISDN circuit which means I basically just leave it nailed > > up 24 hours a day and it costs me about $60/mo. Naturally, YMMV on the > > line charges, and the fact that my "ISP" is also my work gives me free > [.....] > > Vary ? That's an understatement ! ISDN costs #300/quarter here in the > UK - about $150/month and that's without call charges. Where do you get that figure from?? My line (normal BT tariff) costs GBP 91.40/qtr. The really excessive cost is the installation charge.