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Skriven 2004-08-04 16:25:07 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
    Kommentar till text 317 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Re: Fido on the move via cell phone.
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*** Quoting Michiel van der Vlist from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 > Believe me, they *wanted* me to go IDSN as they get more money.

MvdV> I am sure they want people to go ISDN in general. In a particular case
MvdV> the extra money the get may not compensate for the investment however.

I do not think that was it.  I was in an area listed as ISDN available.  Not
all areas are so listed (in Sasebo).  I think it more likely they were just
saturated and had to upgrade something someplace.  Ad I was at the edge of the
area that ISDN covered, it could be I was the first in my building to ask for
it.

 > In base housing, it is not an option.  They have linked in
 > about 300 or so 'apartments' (townhouses etc plus regular
 > apartments) on a line that shouldnt be supporting more than
 > 150 or us at most.  I can tell when lots of other people
 > are making calls, as the bandwidth drops to almost nothing.
 >  When alot of those calls are overseas, i cant get a line
 > out (switchboard all busy or something like that).

MvdV> If you don;'t get a dial tone at all, you must be on one of those old
MvdV> so called "saturable" exchanges. The old exchanges allowed for only 7
MvdV> out of every group of hundred to be off hook at the same time. To get
MvdV> dial tone a subscriber needed to size a so called "first group selecto
MvdV> and there were only seven for each group of hundred subscribers. So if
MvdV> seven out of that group of hundred would be off hook, the eights would
MvdV> not get a dial tone.

No dial tone happens too, but other times there is one, but no circuit outside
the local area.  Also, sometimes you can hear other people talking in the
background (base and Cho both) though that isnt common.

                                       xxcarol

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