On 2010-09-12 18:55, Per Jessen wrote:
Ilya Chernykh wrote:
This is completely standard not only for this city but for this country and for neighboring countries also.
Also for single-family houses or mostly in areas with higher concentrations? I'm surprised it was worth the extra investment in the infrastructure, but I guess xDSL wasn't suitable for some reason.
I guess that their phone network is older. When I worked for a phone company, around 1997-2001, we had some issues with international phone calls there, because part of the network was still analogical, not digital. Which would make connection to internet via modem also difficult. Also, when Fidonet declined with the rise of Internet, some Fidonet software started to be maintained there: for some reason it was used there more than in these parts. Some dev lists started to talk Russian instead of English... -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))