Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hound!rfg 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 Article-I.D.: hound.649 Posted: Wed Oct 3 10:28:42 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 02:38:15 EDT References: <3791@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 15 [.] 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