On 23/12/2020 19:23, Kurt Weiske wrote:
> -=> Chris Green wrote to The Natural Philosopher <=-
>
>   CG> I believe quite a lot of 'base' phone provision in Germany until a few
>   CG> years ago was actually ISDN rather than analogue POTS.
>
>   I loved ISDN back in the day. I ran a BBS off of one B channel,
>   hunted to the other B channel on a busy, used the second channel to
>   connect to the internet to download packets, or nailed both channels
>   up to a Shiva LAN Rover at work to browse the web and work from home.
>
>   If only the US pricing weren't prohibitive. Analog residential phone
>   service is/was flat rate, but ISDN was measured rate all day. It
>   might have dropped at night, I don't recall.
That is why it never caught on in the UK

I migrated here from diam up modem and the best ratye - 48k or
thereabouts, to ISDN . The router alone cost an arm and a leg an I was
paying 4 times the price for an always on 64k connection..

Then I went I think to 256k fixed rate ADSL for several years that cost
a lot less,  before they accidentally told me that it didn't have to be
fixed rate and it went up to around 5Mbps.
ADSL was strictly big company stuff - multiple channels. We used to tell
customers to order the multichannel stuff because then BT - the telco
would install fibre at a cut price, then cancel the ISDN and install
high bandwidth leased line internet instead!



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