EFF "ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)" Archive

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ba_v_fcc_isdn_rates.announce

Announcement of Bell Atlantic's filing of a waiver to prevent ISDN costs from increasing dramatically

isdn.tutorial

Tim Gorman provides this useful tutorial on ISDN in the telephone network.

isdn_applications_eff.paper

Jan 1993 article "Innovative Services Delivered Now ISDN Applications at Home, School, the Workplace and Beyond" discussing the widespread deployment of the "Integrated Services Digital Network" and how the ISDN can be a widely available, reasonably priced open platform that offers a critical mass of features and thus enables the development of scores of new applications. The article also discusses weaknesses and policy bloackages holding back ISDN development.

isdn_eff_fcc_030295.letter

Letter of EFF Board Chair, David Johnson, to FCC commissioners urging FCC to to reconsider and rescind the 'NYNEX Telephone Companies, Revisions to Tariff F.C.C. No. 1 FCC No. 94-356 (rel. 1/11/95)' order, in which FCC decided ISDN should be tarrifed on a per-channel rather than per-line basis - a move that severly threatens wide implementation and use of ISDN.

isdn_net.announce

"The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently presented a plan to Congress calling for the immediate deployment of a national network based on existing ISDN technology, accessible to anyone with a telephone connection, and priced like local voice service. The EFF believes that participants on the Internet, as pioneers on the electronic frontier, need to have their voices heard at this critical moment."

isdn_quittner.article

Joshua Quittner's 1992 article "elephone Service That Rings of the Future" discussing the development of ISDN pointing out argument from both sides.

pb_v_fcc_isdn_rates.announce

Announcement of Pacific Bell's filing of a waiver to prevent ISDN costs from increasing dramatically

tap.alert

Alert from the Taxpayer Assets Project asking people to write to members of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance requesting that ISDN prices be regualted to no more than the cost of a voice line plus the cost of the upgrade to ISDN

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