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From:    dae@world.std.com (Dwight A Ernest)
Date:    Wed, 18 Dec 91 08:53:44 -0500
To:      isdn@list.prime.com

Subject: ISDN in Japan and USA: Contrasts


I pass without comment a posting from Usenet's comp.dcom.telecom newsgroup
by Jim Haynes:

> From: haynes@cats.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes)
> Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
> Subject: ISDN in Japan and USA
> Message-ID: <telecom11.1018.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
> Date: 12 Dec 91 00:40:47 GMT
> Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
> X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 1018, Message 4 of 12
>  
> At the Sun User Group conference this week a lunch speaker was David
> S. H. Rosenthal of SunSoft.  He remarked that in Japan one can just
> call the telephone company and ask to have your home service converted
> to ISDN and it will be done the next day, no charge for the conversion
> and no extra charge for ISDN service.  He contrasted with the U.S.
> where if you can get it at all ISDN is available only at high cost.
>  
> He also noted that ISDN pay phones are becoming common in Japan; they
> have an RJ-45 jack on the side.
>  
>  
> haynes@cats.ucsc.edu   haynes@cats.bitnet


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