Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Phone service question Message-ID: <1225@hao.UUCP> Date: Sun, 21-Oct-84 20:38:08 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.1225 Posted: Sun Oct 21 20:38:08 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Oct-84 02:02:34 EDT References: <1741@sdcc6.UUCP> <891@cornell.UUCP> <422@cyb-eng.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 19 > I tried once to offer my local phone company the FCC reg. # on my > phones/modem, but they wouldn't even bother to take down the information. Since there was a notice with my modem saying that I was required to report that information to the local phone company, I dutifully called Mountain Bell. They took down the information. I asked the guy why they wanted it, and he said that if they are repairing, testing or checking lines, it helps to know there might be a modem in use on a given line. Now that the local phone companies are independent, rumor has it that there may soon be an extra charge for those using modems. I think this was discussed somewhere on the net some time ago. --Greg -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax} !hao!woods "...the bus came by, and I got on, that's when it all began..."