From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 12:13:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA06916 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 12:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from silver.sms.fi (root@silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06556 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 12:08:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA13470; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 22:07:35 +0200 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 22:07:35 +0200 Message-Id: <199602092007.WAA13470@silver.sms.fi> From: Petri Helenius To: hm@altona.hamburg.com Cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISDN devices supported? In-Reply-To: References: <199602082017.NAA08536@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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