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- From: res@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Rich Strebendt)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn
- Subject: Re: Open market versus monopoly, was Re: Obtaining ISDN
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.001920.15847@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:19:20 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.154757.28389@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Nov17.160614.10428@telebit.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: AT&T
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1992Nov17.160614.10428@telebit.com>, bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Up to this point you express unhappiness (which I share) with the
- result of the lack of competition for the providers of local telephone
- service (your local telephone company).
-
- > 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).
-
- WHOA !!!!
-
- What has AT&T got to do with the rest of your posting? As you said
- yourself -- it costs you as little to call halfway across the
- continent on AT&T or one of its competitors as it does to make a local
- call. THIS IS A RESULT of the introduction of competition into the
- LONG DISTANCE CARRIER MARKET -- the market AT&T competes in. AT&T has
- NOTHING to do with your cross-town local call!
-
- The days of Ma Bell are PAST -- Long Live the International AT&T!!!
-
- Rich Strebendt
- ...!att!ihlpb!res
- r.strebendt@att.com
-