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From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Access to the electronic frontier: ISDN
Message-ID: <JBDLy2w163w@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 10 Mar 91 11:48:30 GMT
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Organization: Mad Artists' Techno-Hangout, Vancouver, Canada
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randolph@cognito.Eng.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz) writes:

> It turns out that existing telephone circuits can be used to provide
> wide-spread 64 kpbs services; this is what the telephone companies
> call Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN).

I talked to the BC Tel rep. who is in charge of ISDN implementation in
Vancouver, recently.  He says that they will be introducing ISDN lines
to most modern switches in the next year or two.  Anybody can get one;
the cost will be a little more than that of a standard business line
($90 per month or so, I gather).

More interesting yet, he said that BC Tel intends to set up a "modem
pool."  The idea is that people would call up the modems and say
"connect me to ISDN number 987-6543."  Interesting, no?

If anybody is interested, I can try and dig up any written reports on
this that may be available.

cjs
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