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In the European country where I live, the telecom monopolist used ISDN as a necessary stage before ADSL. This was done to siphon off money from consumers for qt
by unixhero 6y ago
In the European country where I live, the telecom monopolist used ISDN as a necessary stage before ADSL. This was done to siphon off money from consumers for qt least 4 years before ADSL was offered, even though the tech was ready and in use in other countries such as Netherlands. This held us back in terms of development and innovation. I will never forgive them.
- rasz 6y agoAre you talking about Poland? :) National Telecom deployed Ericsson HiS (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_internet_Solution https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_internet_Solution), a proprietary twist on ISDN (max 115kb/s, cheap to manufacture external USB dongle), between 1999 and 2004. Signup was about one full entry level local salary, then 1/6 monthly bill. I didnt hesitate one second, my monthly dialup bills were already approaching ~1/4 of what I was making. At the time there were no alternatives other than local neighbor coop networks sharing >$1K monthly bills for T1 line.