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From: hardarso@cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson)
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Subject: The Status of X.25 in U.S.A.
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Date: 16 Jan 91 20:15:52 GMT
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A previous posting made me think of this question: Is there a way to
get from the Internet to the X.25 networks of Europe? When I lived in
Iceland I used to access a mailbox service in the UK called 1-2-1.  I
accessed it by calling the local X.25 telephone number in Reykjavik
and then entering the so called NUI number of 1-2-1, which was a ten
or twelve digit number. I really miss that service since I had several
contacts there which I can no longer communicate with.

It seems that Telenet and Tymnet are both connected to the European
X.25 networks (I know this because I could Access BIX from Iceland
over the local X.25 via Tymnet) but this does not work the other way
around since a private user cannot get an account on Tymnet or
Telenet, or so I was led to believe.  In Iceland you could get an X.25
account from the telephone company which then billed you for your data
transmissions along with your telephone bill.  Am I to believe that
Americans are behind in the X.25 business or do they have a different
solution to the data transmission problems of individuals?


Kari Hardarson        217 Jackson Circle    Chapel Hill, NC 27514