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- From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn
- Subject: Re: PacBell ISDN?READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP
- Message-ID: <27609@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:40:26 GMT
- References: <c164-cr.721458836@po.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov17.125318.89@indyvax.iupui.edu>
- Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
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- billp@Syntex.COM (Bill Putney) writes:
- > I asked about a flat rate residential ISDN and the story I get is that
- > since an ISDN TA isn't line powered they can't offer ISDN as a residential
- > service. The problem (they say) is that if the power was off a person
- > couldn't call 911. This seems to me to be a very poor excuse.
-
- In comp.dcom.isdn, imhw400@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:
- >To me, too. Gee, I thought that the telcos had all heard about float-charged
- >batteries.
-
- This is just what they are telling you now. I'm sure that one day there
- will be residental ISDN without a requirement for a POTS line.
-
- The reason we don't have residental service now isn't because it's unsafe.
- It's just not time yet.
-
- It's common (and wise) marketing to offer new services (and products)
- at higher initial prices. It allows the company to more quickly boot-strap
- the new service, and to measure the true market demands.
-
- All the ISDN services I've seen talked about now Centrex options
- today. Soon we will have single line business ISDN lines, and not to
- long after that (within a few years), we will see residential ISDN
- (maybe with a battery backup requirement). But don't ever expect to
- get ISDN for the same reducd price you get residential POTS service
- for.
-
- Curt
-