[9839] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet "PayPhones"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Lynch)
Sat Jan 22 19:40:23 1994
Date: 22 Jan 1994 16:40:40 -0800
From: "Dan Lynch" <dlynch@interop.com>
To: "Larry Walker" <walkerl@med.ge.com>, "Marc Horowitz" <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply to: RE>>Internet "PayPhones"
It gets worse. I just visited my German office in Munich and could never get
dialout service of any kind. I have a Mac Powerbook with an internal modem.
Guess what? My modern office is ISDN. Guess what? My modem does not speak
ISDN. In fact, not too many modems speak ISDN. So, ISDN has a huge hurdle to
overcome for individual usage. If you are inside a corporate network you can
afford the gateway/bridge cost of translating to/from ISDN and the old modem
world on a PPP/SLIP link.
I can't believe that going forward goes backwards so much!
Dan
