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US West Holding Back

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph W. Stroup)
Sat May 7 06:09:12 1994

Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 00:21:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com, "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>

US West is only one of the RBOC's holding back on low cost ISDN services. 
While available in some areas (Seattle) (Home of Microsoft) the company 
has opted to not lower the rate on ISDN. A US West spokesman told me 
today that the company has NO plans to lower the cost of ISDN in 1994. 
The company is getting alot of calls everyday from people who are asking 
for ISDN for their homes. The US West answer is to tell the customer that 
another service called "Switched 56" is available. This service offers 
one 56k circuit and no voice ability. The service is less but , usage 
sensitive. Go figure.

Joseph Stroup



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