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- Subject: Re: PacBell ISDN?READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.125318.89@indyvax.iupui.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:53:18 -0500
- References: <c164-cr.721458836@po.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov17.015324.13170@synseer.Syntex.COM>
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- In article <1992Nov17.015324.13170@synseer.Syntex.COM>, billp@Syntex.COM (Bill Putney) writes:
- [deletia]
- > I asked about a flat rate residential ISDN and the story I get is that
- > since an ISDN TA isn't line powered they can't offer ISDN as a residential
- > service. The problem (they say) is that if the power was off a person
- > couldn't call 911. This seems to me to be a very poor excuse.
-
- To me, too. Gee, I thought that the telcos had all heard about float-charged
- batteries. Especially since they own millions of dollars' worth of them. A
- simple law requiring a $5.00 battery for your $200.00 phone is not too
- much to ask, IMHO. (Come to think of it, why don't the manufacturers put the
- battery in the phone to begin with? It's not as though there will be *any*
- customer who won't need one.)
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