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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Subject: Re: X on dial-in
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 17:11:56 GMT
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fgoldstein@bbn.com (Fred R. Goldstein) wrote:
] No, it's $0.00 per month, because residential users can make "speech" calls
] for free in most states. California is an exception; ISDN speech pays during
] the day. New York City is an exception; nobody ever can make free calls nohow.
] And if you need 60*24*30 minutes, then you should have a leased line!
If you were twinkie enough to try this for long, and I were the phone
company, you'd either be required to get a business line for your
modem (don't tell me this doesn't happen!), or I'd simply declare
ISDN data destinations to be "in state long distance" by requiring
inter-LADA routing for data.
Or on speech calls, start twiddling bits that won't affect the
conversation quality but will dump a data conncetion made over a
speech line. This would be a cool way to do you in, since it
wouldn't affect standard analog modems.
And the only thing you'll have succeeded in doing is once again
making video phones uneconomical before they can become common,
on the basis of a very short term gain.
This is on the order of buying Traveler's checks from AAA (who
doesn't charge members for buying them) because you get frequent
flyer miles for doing so, cashing them in, and getting more
traveler's checks, etc., until you can fly somewhere.
Eventually you'll screw it up for everyone.
You are out of your mind if you think you will be paying subsidized
speech rates for data for the rest of time.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.