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From: cliff@violet.berkeley.edu (Cliff Frost)
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Subject: Re: What services does X.25 provide?
Keywords: x.25, services, login, e-mail, file transfer, IPC
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Date: 19 Oct 89 21:26:14 GMT
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In article <17953@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@jupiter.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) writes:
>
>Performance across X.25 is an issue only because of the European PTTs'
>hammerlock on data communications. If they'd privatize and deregulate
>their markets, and in particular if they'd sell leased lines at
>reasonable prices to resellers and private network operators so they
...etc

I'm told by someone in Finland that the Finnish PTT is offering a service
that sounds like a leased line.  It may still be X.25 based (maybe not)
but instead of paying by the packet they pay by the bandwidth reserved
regardless of how many packets they send.  

Apparently this was in response to demand from TCP/IP (who later plan
to be TP4/CLNP) internetworkers there.  So, at least one European PTT is
giving their users a choice.

I've been collecting a lot of very helpful and interesting responses to
my original question, in a week or so I should be able to post a summary.
	Thanks,
		Cliff