Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:31:25 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Cc: terry@lambert.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, michaelh@cet.co.jp, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cable modems Message-ID: <199706111831.LAA06382@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <l03020900afc3e931449d@[194.32.164.2]> from "Bob Bishop" at Jun 11, 97 06:45:04 am
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> >I suspect Europe and Australia to have universal high speed > >access *long* before the US, simple because you guys don't > >have a badly managed antiquated infrastructure that they are > >still trying to amortize over the remaining portion of their > >20 year accounting cycle. > > You wouldn't want to sit here in the UK watching BT softpedal on commitment > to ISDN then. They've had the technology for years, but it still doesn't > cost in for small sites by quite a long way. I have a serious suspicion > that they've been hanging on for xDSL, because they have local copper most > everywhere and the cable cos don't. ISDN is a tool for establising rate metering for data connections. ISDN also requires that you upgrade your phone switches to a 5ESS or better, and pay a huge license fee to AT&T for the switch software to run it. US West does not offer ISDN in my service area because they have a single 5ESS in Tucson with the software. If they had their way, they would not serve non-business customers at all, but they do so reluctantly to maintain their legal monopoly and to provide those business customers someone to whom the can make unsolicited sales calls. [ boy, did I get up on the wrong side of the bed today, or what? ] Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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