* Quoting a message of Fri 06-Sep-1996
RTJ> some people tell me here that ISDN is very expensive. In the
RTJ> netherlands, it isn't. What are the prices outside of the 
RTJ> netherlands ?
 JS> Here you exchange a simple line at perhaps $30/month with unlimited
 JS> free local calling (a pretty large metropolitan area) for ISDN at
 JS> $130/month or so, plus a per minute charge for all calls.  If ISDN
 JS> offered free local service, it would still be much more expensive;
 JS> as it is, the price can be astronomical. 
 JS> I'm not in that big a hurry: free at 28.8 beats expensive at 128kb.
Local PSTN connections cost money too over here. Nothing is free. ISDN and 
PSTN are roughly priced at the same rates (per time unit), so here speed does 
count.
 Lodewijk.
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