atom feed29 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionsRe: ISDN devices supported?
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Bertus PretoriusFeb 7, 1996 10:42 pm 
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Bertus PretoriusFeb 8, 1996 11:43 am 
Terry LambertFeb 8, 1996 12:17 pm 
Ulf ZimmermannFeb 8, 1996 12:33 pm 
Terry LambertFeb 8, 1996 5:12 pm 
Ulf ZimmermannFeb 8, 1996 5:15 pm 
Hellmuth MichaelisFeb 9, 1996 12:04 am 
francis yeungFeb 9, 1996 12:51 am 
Hellmuth MichaelisFeb 9, 1996 4:57 am 
Terry LambertFeb 9, 1996 8:27 am 
Gary KlineFeb 9, 1996 11:23 am 
Terry LambertFeb 9, 1996 11:45 am 
Petri HeleniusFeb 9, 1996 12:07 pm 
Craig JohnstonFeb 9, 1996 12:34 pm 
Darryl OkahataFeb 9, 1996 2:23 pm 
Gary KlineFeb 9, 1996 3:30 pm 
Terry LambertFeb 9, 1996 4:34 pm 
Archie CobbsFeb 9, 1996 10:27 pm 
Hellmuth MichaelisFeb 10, 1996 3:49 am 
Terry LambertFeb 10, 1996 12:43 pm 
francis yeungFeb 10, 1996 2:47 pm 
dlrFeb 10, 1996 9:34 pm 
Hellmuth MichaelisFeb 11, 1996 2:09 am 
Terry LambertFeb 11, 1996 12:28 pm 
Terry LambertFeb 11, 1996 12:36 pm 
Larry DolinarFeb 12, 1996 1:43 pm 
Subject:Re: ISDN devices supported?
From:Terry Lambert (ter@lambert.org)
Date:Feb 9, 1996 4:34:11 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-questions

The real answer is to disdain ISDN anyway: the reason for it is to allow metering charges by the Telco's, and that should be discouraged.

You mean "disdain _metered_ ISDN."

I mean disdain _meterable_ ISDN. I resent the possibiliy that something as trivial as a policy change can damn me.

Possible. Not necessary. Some areas in the US have fixed-rate ISDN.

We recently got this in Seattle, if my source is correct. Every so often I find myself almost thinking government meddling with the "free market" isn't always a bad thing. ;) (I think it got rammed down their throats.)

Now try to mandate that they update to 5ESS or better switches without a big cash incentive hidden up their sleeves (hard to do if the PUC rips their sleeves off with a flat rate tariff). 8-(.

Technically, I've lived in service areas for ISDN for the past 6 years, according to PUC tariffs, but try to actually get it until very recently, and you are out of luck (my prefix at my current address is outside the area with the single 5ESS in the city...).

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But yeah, by all means don't go for metered ISDN, you'll just encourage them. Paying for usage is bloody prehistoric.

8-).

Terry Lambert ter@lambert.org

--- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.