Frank Willoughby wrote:
At 07:53 AM 11/8/96 -0800, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> wrote:
* Why should a Beverly Hills high school get a discount of 20 percent? Can't they afford to pay for ISDN?
Depends on how their telco's tariffs are set up. Here in Indiana, we have a monopoly called "Ameritech" who, out of the kindness of their hearts, charges ***per-minute*** ISDN rates.
Huh? Here on Planet Earth, that's the way it is everywhere, except "non-prime-time" or Centrex rates may be special. In most of the world, local analog voice calls are metered. The US is the exception.
Expect costs of over $600/month for a permament connection (one line) to the Internet.
Now, that *would* be unusual. Unless you mean a full-time dedicated port with a dedicated IP address, which I don't think schools need (their web server should be co-located at their ISP anyway). Dialup ISDN is much cheaper. We've got it down to about $75/month/user, all included. -rich