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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (123825)	4/18/2001 10:50:48 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (2) of 164684

<<<It is not expensive around here for residential use. I believe it is about $50/month. A separate phone line and one's ISP monthly cost is only $10 less. >> Actually that is a lot of money. And to make it worthwhile you need an updated computer. There are still a lot of early Pentiums out there that are working fine on dial-up. Not everyone can write off their connection and hardware costs, Glenn ! <gg> The main beneficiaries of increased broadband penetration will be the providers of pornography. They will make tons of money if it happens. But lots of folks, or most, aren't intersted in that. <<There is mulitmedia that really will only work over broadband. The other is voice over IP which is a lot less money than long distance calls. I do not know what the hold up is.>> The hold up is that regular long distance is rock bottom cheap. Why bother with jittery unreilable VOIP when you can call anywhere anytime for 4 cents/minute on a regular (good) phone?? My ld bill is about 32 bucks a month, and I would never bother with VOIP to try to save on that. Long distance voice is the best bargain going these days.

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