Lodewijk Otto said to Jerry Schwartz on 09-10-96 at 06:33:08PM:
 LO>  * 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.
 LO> Local PSTN connections cost money too over here. Nothing is free. ISDN 
and
 LO> PSTN are roughly priced at the same rates (per time unit), so here speed
 LO> does count.
Not sure where this got started but here is something I found on 
comp.dcom.isdn on usenet. Sort of interesting. (the *I* is not *me*)
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I ripped this off from http://www.essential.org/cpt/isdn/survey.txt
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Company/State                 100 hours 2B+D      Nailed Down
                              (Dollars)           (Dollars)
NATCO
  Arkansas                         17.90          17.90
Ameritech
  Michigan                         36.61          33.51
  Ohio                             
      correction 3/10              32.20          32.20
  Wisconsin                        36.56          30.90
  Illinois     low                 33.05          28.05  
               high                39.50          34.50
  Indiana                          314.83         1,828.59
PacBell
  California (current tariff)      63.62          268.32
              (Proposed tariff)    173.88         1,106.17
US WEST
  Utah                             68             184
  Oregon                           69             1,949.64
Southwestern Bell - SBC
  Missouri                         104.30         104.30
  Kansas                           104.30         104.30
BellSouth
  Alabama                          68.60          68.60
  Florida                          57.15          57.15
  Georgia                          63.75          63.75
  Kentucky                         60.05          60.05
  Louisiana                        71.66          71.66
  Mississippi                      65.51          65.51
  N Carolina                       75.10          75.10
  S. Carolina                      60.40          60.40
  Tennessee                        29.50          29.50
Bell Atlantic
  Delaware                         198            1,206.48
  District of Columbia
     Proposed                      198            1,206.48
     OPC Staff Recommendation      32             32
  Maryland                         198            1,206.48
  New Jersey                       198            1,206.48
  Pennsylvania                     198            1,206.48
  Virginia                         198            1,206.48
  West Virginia                    198            1,206.48
NYNEX
  New York                         153.58         890.98
  Massachusetts
     Area Code 617/508             226.39         1,419.41
     Area Code 413                 159.19         911.65
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