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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Telecomm rates?
Message-ID: <649@hound.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 10:28:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  3 10:28:42 1984
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Anything is possible. I have no inside information and could not discuss 
it if I did. However, you are misinformed on a couple of factual points.
First, telephone central offices (plain or digital fancy) do not look
for or detect data signals on customer lines. It would be very expensive
to modify them to do so - even the new electronic and/or digital
variety.  If they did, you could always make voice calls and then switch
in the modem after a delay (which is in fact what you do now, except you
switch in the modem as fast as possible).
What the telcos probably want to do is introduce special data lines
(perhaps digital) as an improved service to their customers. Then they
might lobby to force data users to stop using pots lines (Plain Old
Telephone Service).
I forgot what the second point was, if any.
Dick Grantges  hound!rfg