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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (22970)	1/15/1998 8:49:00 PM
From: robert scheb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Craig: Sorry to interupt your conversation on ISDN, but someone on Yahoo thread found a link to Asia business news that I thought might be interesting to someone. nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com Scheb

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (22970)	1/17/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Richard N. Barg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

I am not on the internet anywhere close to 8 hours per day. However, my point is that the prospective calcuatation of ISDN monthly charges are tricky here. The Telco charges by the channel and also for analog pots port usage. So, if you had only an ISDN connection in your home, all your analog calls in your house would count and data calls w/2B channels running would soak up minutes at a 2 for one rate. So effectively you are down to 100 hours if you intially bond at 2B and your TA is not capable of BOD (Bandwidth on Demand) and most are NOT. Beyond (200 [100 2B hours], the Telco charges 60 cents per minute Then the ISP Mindspring levels a $1.00 surcharge for each hour you use both channels. In my case, I was grandfathered in for unlimted 1B 64K usage (since 3/97, all other users pay $1.00 per hour over 100 hours even for 64K usage). To make matters even more confusing, the Telco grandfathered its earlist ISDN users w/unlimited 2B time. All this makes ISDN rather complex in terms of prognositicating your costs.