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Subject: Re: A Potential Downside to ISDN
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In article <14339@accuvax.nwu.edu>, adams@ucunix.san.uc.edu 
(James Warner Adams) writes:

> My main concern is that the implementation of ISDN is going to give
> the telephone carriers a golden opportunity to clamp down on the
> low-to-mid speed data comm market that more-or-less escaped control in
> the wake of the Carterfone decision.  Given the indifferent-to-hostile
> attitude of the BOCs toward home BBS's and USENET sites, one has to
> wonder what will happen when a new technology is installed.  Given the
> almost unlimited class-of-service control available under a purely
> digital system, how will data comm access/billing be handled?

I imagine that since digital voice telephony allocates 64kbps to a
channel the telcos will be hard pressed to justify charging different
rates for different uses.  If an analogue modem is used on a digital
telephony circuit, then the situation is no different than before.

My guess is that as more people buy ISDN pads (or whatever they are
called) for their PC's etc, the price will fall so the V22bis modems
will be used by fewer and fewer people.  As far as ISDN in the network
is concerned, I think voice traffic will be considered as data
traffic.

Just my own (probably ill-informed) humble opinion,


Danny