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- From: mjp1@pclink.com [Mike Ponicki]
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 28.8 baud & telco responsibilities
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 02:57:25 GMT
- Organization: pclink.com
- Message-ID: <4i2p6l$lnm@news.pclink.com>
- References: <todamhyp-2802961822500001@bhppp31.bluehawk.com> <4h4kaf$dla@netaxs.com>
- Reply-To: mjp1@pclink.com [Mike Ponicki]
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- In <4h4kaf$dla@netaxs.com>, alpert@netaxs.com (Robert Alpert) writes:
- >In case you hadn't noticed, the telephone network was designed
- >for analog VOICE communication. This salient fact is sometimes
- >lost on .edu "doodz" and other clueless youngsters. There is no
- >guarantee that an ordinary phone line will do anything but carry your
- >voice. Anything else is gravy.
- >
- >--
- > Bob Alpert
- > alpert@netaxs.com
- >
-
- Well of course! In fact, the phone companies don't even have to give a good
- voice connection. Who cares. Just send them their $$$'s every month an if
- your phone works, be grateful. And we should go back to the old days. Do you
- remember the days when there were stern warnings if the consumer hooked
- anything up to the telephone lines? Only the phone company techies were good
- enough to plug in a phone (for a fee of course).
-
- And while we are at it, lets not forget they are a monopoly.
-
- And you know, us customers that use modems should be charged more. After
- all, we may use the telephone lines more.
-
- Yeah, you are right. Screw the telephone company customers. They are lucky
- they get any service at all.
-
- Modems on telephone company lines! Bah humbug.
-
- (-:
-