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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 09:35:17 CST
- From: Andrew C. Green <acg@hermes.dlogics.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Airfone -- Phooey
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- henry@ads.com (Henry Mensch) writes:
-
- > Is anyone happy with these things? I've never gotten one to work to
- > my satisfaction ...
-
- Happiness is in the eye of the beholder, but I find the process of
- setting up a call to be a bit counterintuitive at best. I had to read
- the directions several times to comprehend them, and as a computer
- programmer I don't feel I'm particularly dense in these matters. If
- memory serves, you have to wait until a green light stops blinking
- before swiping your credit card through the handset, THEN you have to
- wait until the green light goes OUT before dialing. Something like
- that. As someone else pointed out, you must wait for a collection of
- beeps and boops to finish, then dial the call; the delay seemed to be
- due to the phone trying to get an authorization from my AmEx card
- before proceeding. After following the instructions to the letter and
- dialing very slowly, it still took two or three attempts before I got
- through.
-
- I chalked up the experience to Early Technology and took comfort in
- the fact that a few years earlier, I would have had no means of making
- the call at all.
-
-
- Andrew C. Green
- Datalogics, Inc. Internet: acg@dlogics.com
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