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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:16308 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8240 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9379 comp.unix.misc:16278 comp.os.linux.development:23846 comp.os.linux.misc:36132 comp.os.386bsd.development:3271 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5553 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!jamesl From: jamesl@netcom.com (James Logajan) Subject: Re: flat rates for Internet/phone (Re: X on dial-in) Message-ID: <jameslD4H36p.J7E@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Organization: Lugoj Incorporated X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <D3s19v.4M7@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D4DH09.BAo@pe1chl.ampr.org> <3ig1dn$6l5@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <1995Feb22.220136.7837@kf8nh.wariat.org> <3iik8n$q8@zeus.achilles.net> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 21:47:13 GMT Lines: 23 Sender: jamesl@netcom9.netcom.com Paul JY Lahaie (pjlahaie@achilles.net) wrote: [comment on fixed rates being replaced with measured service deleted] : I guess that's one of the nice thing of having regulated phone service. U.S. phone companies are regulated because they are not only government sanctioned monopolies, they are government imposed. Municipalities and other government entities have granted single right-of-way and single telecommunications source for their citizens. About the only way out of the non-competitive fiasco now imposed on the telecommunications customer is the recent advances in wireless telecommunications. A real choice in who you want as your telecommunications provider is finally emerging. BTW: the worst-case scenario I see coming is governments leaving the phone companies monopoly rights intact and de-regulating pricing. : As for FAXing/Modems. Modems are being slowly phased out. People are : already starting to switch to ISDN. And with ISDN 1-second dialing, it's no : big bother to do PPP-on-demand type services. As for FAXes, well, use the : ISDN FAXing interface. Don't know much about it, so I won't comment now. So ISDN sales are exceeding/approaching modem sales?? Anyway, show me commercially viable digital wireless and then I'll get excited.