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From: Jacob Suter <jsuter@bsd.intrastar.net>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: 128k ISDN vs. T1
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> At the point where you are doing that, why NOT go with F-T1?  It is designed
> precisely to cope with that sort of thing.  Making ISDN do it is like trying
> to hammer a screw into a wall.

Call GTE texas sometime and ask for a Fractional T1 circuit...  Their 
reply is generally along the lines of "no".  Frame Relay?  Yeah right!  
but hell, we don't have ISDN, but I wish we did.....  

So, you end up paying $25/mile on an intralata T1, when all you need is 
128k....   Naah!