Re: ISDN current events (fwd)

[wb8foz@netcom.com (David Lesher)]

  Climbing onto a nearby soapbox, James Love proudly proclaimed:
  > 
  > a few persons thought I made a mistake here, and that I meant a single 
  > "B" channel, but I did mean the D channel  (the 16k data channel), even 
  > though my grammar left a little to be desired.  That is, I was told that 
  > a residential ISDN connection, being used for data, can dynamically close 
  > or open the B channels depending upon whether or not data is being 
  > transfered, while keeping the D channel open (or something to this effect).
  > ...   if true, this would pretty much eliminate the need for the usage 
  > based charges....., it would seem to me. jamie
  
  This is not a big deal technically. It *is* bureaucratically.
  The RBOC's sell packet service now. But they've little incentive
  to allow free D channel to set up B channel.
  
  
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