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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone Rate Hike - Pacific Bell
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 16:24:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 16:24:27 1985
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> <<<
> <
> < Unfortunately, I don't have a "phone meter" out at the side of my house.
> < You have to take the word of the phone company that I've talked as much as
> <  they say I have.  Which is to say, I have to trust their computer. :-)
> <
> 
>   Why don't we have phone meters? Imagine a device that you plug into your
> phone line and monitors your home phone. It would log every time the phone
> were off hook and possibly decode the numbers that you dial. It could even
> indicate when the phone rang so you could see if anyone was trying to call
> while you were out. Great way to keep tabs on the phone Co.
> 
Ask someone in Germany about phone meters.  They can tell you why.

-Ron