I had ISDN for around $75/mo in '94 or '95, flat rate for "local" calls. It was fantastic! But then the phone company switched it to a metered service (in Oma

I had ISDN for around $75/mo in '94 or '95, flat rate for "local" calls. It was fantastic! But then the phone company switched it to a metered service (in Omaha Nebraska, USA) and the price would have been over $300/mo after that change. I was grandfathered in, as long as I didn't move. I was talking to a sales rep, at the time I worked for USWest or QWest, whatever they were called at that time, which may have helped, and the sales rep told me "we are being told to actively discourage people from buying ISDN". I get the impression that the phone company hated consumer modem use of any kind, because it tied up CO equipment 24x7, and they liked the returns on investment they got with people paying $25/mo for resources that were used an hour or less a day, sometimes with extra revenue from long distance calling. And ISDN was just another representation of that.