TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: filegate
to: mark lewis
from: Janis Kracht
date: 2007-10-02 22:26:44
subject: R50 Host :-)

Hi Mark,

>> Wow.. 100Mbit.. even your 10M would be faster than our lowly 3M
>> here :( :( People in the U.S. have started wondering why our lines
>> are so much slower over here :(

> no need to wonder... it is nothing more than corporate and share-holder
> greed... just look at how they ran ISDN into the ground with the high pricing
> and then claimed that there never was a market for it to start with :(

Yup!!  The amazingly short-lived-ISDN-US.  You can still get it, but it's
metered, will cost you an arm and a leg .. matter of fact, you'd
probably have to give your first-born to the telephone company 

> there was as much or more of a market for 64k dual channel ISDN in the US as
> anywhere else in the world... too bad the US teleco bean counters are/were so
> st00pid 8?

And....greedy or something..

Take care,
Janis

--- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag
* Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
SEEN-BY: 10/1 3 11/203 14/250 300 400 34/999 53/558 90/1 120/228 123/500
SEEN-BY: 132/500 134/10 140/1 222/2 226/0 229/4000 236/150 249/303 261/20 38
SEEN-BY: 261/100 1381 1404 1406 1410 1418 266/1413 280/1027 320/119 633/104
SEEN-BY: 633/260 262 267 690/682 734 712/848 800/432 801/161 189 2222/700
SEEN-BY: 2800/18 2905/0
@PATH: 261/38 633/260 267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.