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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: flat rates for Internet/phone (Re: X on dial-in)
Date: 24 Feb 1995 21:51:11 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3ilkcf$r4g@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <D3s19v.4M7@pe1chl.ampr.org> <D4DH09.BAo@pe1chl.ampr.org> <3ig1dn$6l5@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <1995Feb22.220136.7837@kf8nh.wariat.org> <3iik8n$q8@zeus.achilles.net> <jameslD4H36p.J7E@netcom.com>
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jamesl@netcom.com (James Logajan) wrote:
]
] About the only way out
] of the non-competitive fiasco now imposed on the telecommunications
] customer is the recent advances in wireless telecommunications.
s
I absolutely *cringe* when I hear "recent advances in wireless
telecommunications".
I associate it with the 1/2 hour late night TV "infomercial" trying
to sell absolutely useless wireless cable franchises. They use
exactly this phrase, and follow it with "join the information
superhighway!".
This pretty much neglects the fact that *there*is*no*back*channel*!
Buy one of these, and you will have joined "the information super
one way street".
Now if, on the other hand, you were referring to mobile cellular
radio franchises... well, radio bandwith sucks, and you can tap
radio communications too easily, so that's only a log grade voice
soloution anyway.
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.