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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Modem use in Moscow
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 03:21:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.032146.12741@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Aug27.220018.952@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1992Aug27.220018.952@wheaton.wheaton.edu> dougs@david.wheaton.edu (Doug Smith - SGA) writes:
- > I will be making a trip to Moscow soon and am wondering if my USA modem will
- > work as is. Anybody know?
-
-
- From what i read in soc.sulture.soviet a few months ago, modem use is frowned
- upon and the use of uncertified modems is a big no-no. Phones there are
- expensive to use and unreliable.........
-
- A 20 minute call to the US from a Russian business phone would just about wipe
- out a couple of years salary for the average Russian worker.
-
- They have equipment to detect modems and - apparently - they use it. Modem use
- incurrs a big surcharge on the phone.
-
- I'm not saying you will have any problems. I am saying you should be aware that
- the telephone environment there - and the bureaucracy's view of things - is
- quite different to the US or other western countries (like NZ).
-
- Ask this question in soc.culture.soviet. Some Russian modem users will likely
- respond.
-
- Steve
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- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz | September 19, 1992, then you
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