[11009] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
isdn/sw56 rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Humphrey)
Fri Mar 18 01:34:19 1994
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 13:36:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Doug Humphrey <digex@ss1.digex.net>
To: com-priv@psi.com
>A switched 56 line in California is $45 per month. You can get an ISDN
>line
>for $28 per month in California. One ISDN line is the equivalent of two
>switched 56 lines. ISDN also interoperates with switched 56.
>
>ISDN tariffs in the rest of the country range from $30 per month up to
>about $50 a month in most places.
Yes, but the real key to these technologies being viable in an
Internet access arrangement is the price per minute for use!
The base price of ISDN in the DC area is not very high, but the
$0.05/minute for data calls makes it unusable for any application
where there is going to be a human online, interactive, for hours
at a time, and paying out of their pocket.
The per minute rates make or break the communications infrastructure
for an application like the Internet.
Doug
