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Subject: Re: "separate data network" is silly speculation
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 07:15:28 EDT
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> ... [ISDN] ... The resultant network would provide
> 64kbps circuit switching and voice (digitized at 64kbps) for about the
> same price, over the same lines, and throw in access to X.25 as well.

I feel compelled to inject a cynical comment here.  Anyone who thinks that
ISDN will be as cheap as analog voice service any time before the year 2100
is dreaming.  Until such time as ISDN becomes the default for POTS (Plain
Old Telephone Service), the phone companies will have enormous incentive
to charge all the traffic will bear, to help keep the POTS price down.

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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