On Tue, 12 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 09:26:41PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: : > The unit itself is usually ~500$ cdn, but the providers around here lease : > it for a few dollars a month more. : : That sounds nice. Here in the land of .AU, where any decent sized link : is expensive (ISDN is a rip-off here), the cable company (one : at present) wants you to buy the modem outright, for about $500 AU : (pretty close to $500 CDN I think). Fortunately they do rent out : the set top boxes for the television signal.
Yikes! Er, what kind of cable equipment are they using? : > Prices around here are about 40$/mo cdn for a 24/7 dynamic IP, severs are : > generally forbidden by the providers, etc. : : Cable modem here is $65/mo I think, including 100mb traffic, then : it's *** 35c/mb! *** In the US the national average is $35-$80, or so our marketing folks tell us. We sell 1.5 MB residential access for $35/month with a $150 setup charge. That price includes leasing the modem. Business access is priced higher, but it's not outrageous. We don't limit traffic, just bandwidth. (Anyone moving to South Dakota?) : ISDN is about $70/month rental, with timed local calls; costs a small : fortune for a semi-permanent connection. (That's for 2xB + 1xD, ie : basic rate.) : : Hamish ISDN is expensive here. USWest has a strangle-hold on phone services in the mid-west and consequently they don't seem to care much. We'll see what they do when they roll out DSL. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
