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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn
- Path: sparky!uunet!telebit!bjork
- From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork)
- Subject: Open market versus monopoly, was Re: Obtaining ISDN
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.160614.10428@telebit.com>
- Sender: news@telebit.com
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- Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- References: <1992Nov13.154757.28389@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Nov16.235427.11813@advtech.uswest.com> <1992Nov17.145659.5823@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:06:14 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1992Nov17.145659.5823@bmerh85.bnr.ca>,
- coghlan@bnr.ca (Patrick Coghlan) writes:
-
- >You need a NT1 and a terminal adapter or ISDN card for your PC. You
- >can get both for around $1000 today. I paid $3000 for an original IBM
- >PC with 16K memory and no disk drives in 1983. I can get a 386 for
- >around $1000 today. Would you care to guess what it will cost to have
- >ISDN in a few years?
-
- More than it costs today (no smiley).
-
- Your PC clone is the result of an *open market* and competition.
-
- There is *no* effective competition in either the telco local loop
- or the cable tv local loop.
-
- This is why telephone charges are so outrageous, not to mention the
- plundering done by cable tv systems.
-
- For an example of serious rate discrimination, it costs me as much
- money to call across the San Francisco bay as it does to call
- Montana.
-
- AT&T is so cash rich they have nothing better to do than buy
- computer companies and pay off lawyers. I'd much rather see that
- money go towards fiber to the demarc, or not taken in the first
- place (ie, rate reductions).
-
- --Steven
-