From owner-freebsd-isdn Fri Feb 11 1:10:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from onizuka.vmunix.org (onizuka.vmunix.org [194.221.152.19]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA70A46AA for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 01:10:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (1275 bytes) by onizuka.vmunix.org via sendmail with stdio (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:10:12 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: From: torstenb@vmunix.org (Torsten Blum) Subject: Re: free slow channel In-Reply-To: <20000211090139.A468138C2@hcswork.hcs.de> from Hellmuth Michaelis at "Feb 11, 2000 10:01:39 am" To: hm@hcs.de Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:10:12 +0100 (CET) Cc: torstenb@vmunix.org (Torsten Blum), freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > What i don't understand, is how the Telekom will solve the marketing and > pricing problem of giving something away for free (X.31 in the D-channel) > what they are currently charging extraordinary amounts of money ..... Yes, and that's why I'm not sure if they'll really do it that way. Well, they can still offer it only for T-Online. Then all other X.31 users (like the Banks using X.31 for their ATM machines) still have to pay those charges. -tb -- OSI ist nicht deswegen tot, weil es nicht vernünftig war, sondern weil sein Mitbewerb praxisnäher ist. Man könnte sagen, das ist der Sieg des ingenieur- mäßigen Designs über das akademische Design. -- Helge Oldach über den OSI Protokollstack in To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message