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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:51:42 GMT
- From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Airfone -- Phooey
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- > ... but I find the process of setting up a call to be a bit
- > counterintuitive at best.
-
- Excuse me? You remove the handset from the holder, look for the green
- LED to come _on_, telling you a line is available. Then you run your
- credit card through the reader. Then you wait for the dial tone.
- Finally, you dial the area code and phone number. A bit long, but not
- confusing.
-
- The only two flaws of the Airfone system are that it's completely
- analog, and that all signalling is in-band. (That's the "beeps and
- boops.")
-
-
- Gordon S. Hlavenka cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us
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