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From: Walter Hafner <hafner@suncog13.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cheap ISDN solutions [was: What's the state of ISDN support?]
Date: 18 Apr 1997 11:58:32 +0200
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, Germany
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nigel@palms.nq.net (Nigel Gorry) writes:
> Who's short sighted? If the telcos can't cope with everyone having permanent
> connections in the future, then they won't last many more years...
>
> Nearly every ISP in Australia uses a permanent ISDN link - that's what they
> are there for...
Same over here in Germany.
But we face a different problem: In Germany, the acceptance of ISDN is
_much_ higher than it is in different countries. I have no statistics at
hand, sorry, but I know that the ISDN/inhabitants ratio is much bigger
in Germany that it is e.g. in the USA. That leads to the simple problem,
that it is virtually impossible to get a new ISDN connection these
days. Especcially since last year, when every customer got up to 700 DM
(~500$) promotion from the Telekom just for ordering an ISDN connection,
the ISDN market is booming. Now the Telekom doesn't have the technical
capacities to wire all interessents ... :-)
-Walter
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