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From: zweig@cs.uiuc.edu (Johnny Zweig)
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Subject: Re: ISDN and British Telecom
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Date: 11 Dec 89 02:34:24 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 568, message 4 of 13

pcf@galadriel.british-telecom.co.uk (Pete French) writes:

>Britain is set to unveil big ISDN push, at last. After years of
>pushing back the introduction of ISDN, British Telecom is now planning
>a great leap forward. Instead of installing 1,500 ISDN basic-rate
>interface (2B + D) lines in the first year as originally planned, it
>is telling suppliers that it will install 50,000 lines during 1990.

>The launch follows a 23 million pound order with STC
>Telecommunications for equipment to provide up to 90,000 lines of
>network capacity.

Huzzah for the Revolution!  Anyone at Illinois Bell getting word of
any of this?  ISDN is still in messy/expensive/poorly-supported
"trial" (the term is used in the same sense that Kafka used it, I
believe) stage here, and anyone smaller than McDonald's Corp. can't
get a hold of it in any reasonable sense.

 Johnny 128-kbps-or-bust