"Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting." - W.S.Churchill
On 03 Aug 1995 Kari Tiihonen wrote to Wolfgang Weck:
 >->   The ISDN line is too expensive here for a normal user.
 > What is a normal user? A BBS user. Sure not, they are under 1%
 > of ZyXEL users. But they have a big mouth with a loud voice.
 > A normal user, who's paying 2DM/l for gas to his car can really
 > afford ISDN easily to his 90Mhz Pentium + 2Gb + 16Mb + 17"...
 > The difference from 486-33 to 586-90 is about the same as from
 > V.34 to ISDN. And quess what: EVERYONE'S BUYING PENTIUMS.
 > You'll see funny things in next 12 months. I know.
  Sorry, Sir, but why do you forget to take ex-USSR market into 
consideration? These weird territories possess one wonderful feature: if 
government structures decide that you are capable of paying (you are seeking 
for expensive services -- ISDN), you have to pay not just twice but THOUSANDS 
of times more. Thus ISDN (64Kbit) line costs from $887.5 to $5217.5 per 
month! Would you like such a service? What about me I'd better bought a 
133MHz Pentium + 2Gb + 32Mb + 17"... Don't forget as well that communication 
services over ex-USSR never cheapen, so ISDN is a subject for banks and 
idiots over here ;-)
                                    Yours truly,
                                    Vadim Maksimenko.
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