Re: [OT] Bell Canada - service vs. abuse

In <100o227$3l9hv$1@dont-email.me> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes:

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Except for businesses with PBXs, we didn't use ISDN for residential.
It's too bad because the sound quality was superior to analog but the
technology was in wider-spread use in Europe and Japan than here.

hey, *we* (Panix, where I used to work) had nuerous ISDN residential
customers using dial up ISDN, including... me and a bunch of
other staff members.  I even still have my Motorola Bitsurfer
in a box somewhere...

We also had extensive discussions with our customers as to the
importance of using 56K channels on their ISDN calls 'cuz NY Telephone
charged the 64k ones at business, that is, _timed_ rates
of an additional one cent/minute.  Residential were untimed
so just the single 10 cents or so per call..

You know what we are doing in this country? Telephone repair personnel
have been ordered to leave covers off pedestals. You see this all over
the place. The covers were designed to eliminate water infiltration. But
the network isn't deteriorating quickly enough to make the business case
to the regulators that it must be abandoned, so the telephone companies
are helping things along with self sabotage. It's outrateous.

I was wondering why so many pedestals were "open".  Yeah,
this claim certainly sounds plausible...

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