-=> Pascal Schmidt wrote to Bo Simonsen <=-

 BS> Okay, bigger cities?

 PS> I read about it being an experiment somewhere. Yeah, it was some bigger
 PS> city, but I just don't remember where that was.

Okay :-)

 BS> BTW just for interesting, where do you live in Germany?
 PS> Bremerhaven, 60 km north of Bremen.

In the state of "Niedersaschen" afair.. Or is it "Nordrhein
Westfallen"? 
(I don't have a german map around).

Kann man nicht ADSL in bremerhaven bekommen? Oder nur bremen?

 BS> OH That's not so mutch! I did pay 500 DKR just for the subscribtion
 BS> of flatrate ISDN then I did have that, and it was only allowed to use
 BS> one B channel.

 PS> Well, my provider is an exception. Back when all providers had ISDN
 PS> flatrate offerings, you had to pay per-minute costs for the second
 PS> channel at almost all providers.

Okay. So you use BOD? :-) Then I did use ISDN for internet connection, I 
did never use it because it costs double minute pay.

 PS> Internet via ISDN is pretty much dead in Germany, everybody wants ADSL
 PS> now. I don't really need the extra bandwidth, it doesn't matter much to
 PS> me whether an ISO image download takes minutes or 20 hours.

The same here.. I can do a ISO image on less than 3 hours.. 
Unfortionally Fidonet members and broadband users have something in 
common :-(

 PS>> They don't offer a real ADSL flatrate, but the 5G variant
 PS>> has a maximum cost of 99 Euros per month.

 BS> Okay! That's kidna bad.

 PS> Well, you can choose between a lot of ADSL providers around here, it's
 PS> not coupled with what phone company you're customer of. They're all
 PS> moving off the flatrate model, however - pay by traffic seems to be the
 PS> future. No surprise since the ISPs have to pay for traffic, too.

Not in all countries.. Only very few providers provide that kind of 
service here..

Gruss,
Bo


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