Re: GSM technology
At 09:43 AM 1/20/97 -0500, Nurdane Oksas wrote:
Does anyone use ADSL lines? or are they still very expensive?
I just had a very interesting talk with somebody from Northern Telecom (Canada's Phone Company). NorTel has apparently skipped ISDN and is now deploying ADSL. Some areas already have access to ADSL at, can you believe this, $60/month. -- Lucky Green mailto:shamrock@netcom.com PGP encrypted mail preferred Make your mark in the history of mathematics. Use the spare cycles of your PC/PPC/UNIX box to help find a new prime. http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
Lucky Green wrote:
At 09:43 AM 1/20/97 -0500, Nurdane Oksas wrote:
Does anyone use ADSL lines? or are they still very expensive?
I just had a very interesting talk with somebody from Northern Telecom (Canada's Phone Company). NorTel has apparently skipped ISDN and is now deploying ADSL. Some areas already have access to ADSL at, can you believe this, $60/month.
SaskTel also offers this type of access, at around the same price. As long as they had a monopoly on the citizens of the province, they gouged people in the boondocks $ 6.00/hr for basic access to the InterNet. Now that they have competition, and need to have competitive rates to stay in business, they are acting like they are the consumer's best friend, instead of rip-off shitheads. Toto
ADSL will be the best for movies... i can't wait . On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
At 09:43 AM 1/20/97 -0500, Nurdane Oksas wrote:
Does anyone use ADSL lines? or are they still very expensive?
I just had a very interesting talk with somebody from Northern Telecom (Canada's Phone Company). NorTel has apparently skipped ISDN and is now deploying ADSL. Some areas already have access to ADSL at, can you believe this, $60/month.
-- Lucky Green mailto:shamrock@netcom.com PGP encrypted mail preferred Make your mark in the history of mathematics. Use the spare cycles of your PC/PPC/UNIX box to help find a new prime. http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
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Lucky Green
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Nurdane Oksas
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Toto