[ale] ISDN and BellSouth

[Michael J. Callahan]

That schedule sounds like it relates intimately to the schedule media-1
published for laying their new fiber optics cable. As I suspected, and
that means that service would not be available in my neck of the woods
until late 1997 or 1998, too late for me.

I have been thinking about going to Satelite TV anyway, and now I'd 
like to see what plans they have for ISP access. Other than that, I had
considered replacing my 2 lines with ISDN, but not at the new proposed
rate...

mike

PS- Norris Lake living is worth the 'isolation', IMHO...


On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, jkerr wrote:

>      I received something in the mail yesterday with a schedule of 
>      availability.  It starts as soon as the end of 96 and goes to 97, 98.  
>      I will have it shortly, but others may not.  
>      Jim
> 
> 
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [ale] ISDN and BellSouth
> Author:  MIKEC at DTISMTP (Michael J. Callahan) {mikec at america.net} at INTERNET
> Date:    9/4/96 8:43 AM
> 
> 
> Really, available shortly? I had not seen any dates on availability, or 
> rates either. Will they be available in all service areas, or maybe only 
> selected areas, like the areas where they are laying new fiber optic 
> cables? My neighborhood will not be serviced by the new cable until late 
> 1997 (outside stone mtn area). Heard any dollar rate figures?
>      
> I read that some of the home satelite TV companies are going to go for 
> providing this service also.
>      
> -------------------------------
> |\/|ike C. -- mikec at america.net
> *note: insert clever tagline here...
>      
>      
>      
> On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, jkerr wrote:
>      
> >      I agree.  Why pay $125.00 for ISDN when the cable modems will be
> >      available from Media 1 shortly.  You would think Bell would make ISDN 
> >      attractive now to try and get as much of the market as possible.  Bell 
> >      needs to decrease rates to increase it's customer base.
> >
> >      Jim
> >
> >
> > ______________________________ Reply Separator _______________________________
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> > Subject: Re: [ale] ISDN and BellSouth
> > Author:  LEE at DTISMTP (Lee Nelson) {Lee.Nelson at ntb9.cdc.gov} at INTERNET 
> > Date:    9/3/96 10:02 PM
> >
> >
> > If they are sucessful with getting this rate increase it will
> > esentailly kill ISDN in Bell South territory and provide additional 
> > incentives for Media 1 (etc.) to move even faster in implementing
> > cable modems ( which are much faster than ISDN) and will also push
> > businesses to the satellite downlink solution.  Very sad to hear this. 
> >  I just installed ISDN about 3 months ago, but I won't pay that kind
> > of rate.
> >
> > Lee Nelson
> > CDC
> >
>