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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 1996 22:07:35 +0200
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To:        hm@altona.hamburg.com
Cc:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ISDN devices supported?
Message-ID:  <199602092007.WAA13470@silver.sms.fi>
In-Reply-To: <m0tknp8-000010C@ernie.altona.hamburg.com>
References:  <199602082017.NAA08536@phaeton.artisoft.com> <m0tknp8-000010C@ernie.altona.hamburg.com>

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Hellmuth Michaelis writes:
 > >From the keyboard of Terry Lambert:
 > 
 > > The real answer is to disdain ISDN anyway: the reason for it is to
 > > allow metering charges by the Telco's, and that should be discouraged.
 > 
 > Can you explain this a bit ? Your view might be a bit US-centric in case
 > i translate the above sentence correctly ;-)
 > 
There is a single country where ISDN has really taken of. Germany.
I think it's not a surprise that the same country is among the most
regulated telecom countries where pricing has little or no relation
to reality. Artificial prices make cows fly.

Pete



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