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- From: bond@access2.digex.net (Sean Connery)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: How can I recieve calls while on the internet?
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 11:29:31 -0500
- Organization: Universal Export
- Message-ID: <4gkq1b$315@access2.digex.net>
- References: <4g61mt$ij3@news-2.ccinet.ab.ca> <jrivas-2002960400220001@user05.infohouse.com>
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- In article <jrivas-2002960400220001@user05.infohouse.com>,
- Jose Luis Rivas <jrivas@tuna.net> wrote:
-
- >If you can't afford the extra phone line you can always spring for a
- >beeper, that is what I do. I will tell anyone if it is really urgent to
- >page me, if my phone line is busy. If I recognize the page I will
- >immediately get off the internet, and call them back.
-
- I am about to do this in a fashion...in the DC area we now have Sprint
- Spectrum...a new digital PCS service. I'll be getting a Nokia phone soon
- that supports text messaging and beeper functions... But it will also
- ring... So instead of getting a 2nd line like I used to have I will have
- a second wireless line...hah.
-
- Plus...with the new Courier CallerID code...I can set things up under
- OS/2 to page me with the name/number of people that call my home line
- while I am out and about...
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