Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!killer!vector!chip
From: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit Plus modems
Keywords: Telebit xmodem ymodem zmodem nmodem etc...
Message-ID: <346@vector.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 17:32:52 GMT
References: <12997@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <9548@e.ms.uky.edu> <113@otishq.UUCP> <9575@e.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Organization: Dallas Semiconductor
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In article <9575@e.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
>In article <113@otishq.UUCP> guardian@otishq.UUCP (Harry Skelton) writes:
>>I'd rather keep my old phone system and run 38K than to pay $$$$$$ for 
>>ISDN tech., the boards to run it with, and the $$$ for phone service to
>>support it EVERY MONTH!
>I don't know what sort of charges they were intending for local use
>inside a town/lata ... initially I suppose the long distance charges
>would be fairly expensive.  But that's only initally, once it develops
>and they're accustomed to doing it, etc, the price'll come down

Some of the BOC's are offering a basic rate interface service, the so-called
2B+D.  One of these is Illinois Bell.  I've been told that their BRI cost
is approximately 1.3 times the Centrex service.  With Centrex, you can
run 56K data, with BRI you can run 2*64K data, which is obviously a good
deal.  The comparison was made against Centrex because BRI is analogous
to it.  A line is run to you, and all the switching is done at the central
office.

AT&T has a tariff for the (23B+D) primary rate interface service, which
goes into effect later this year.  I don't know any of the pricing details.
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