Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!elroy!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: ficc!peter@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Pacific Bell plans access to computers Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 89 10:18:52 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 197, message 9 of 10 Eric Lee Green writes: > Hmmm. I wonder if PacBell will do what SW Bell did when they signed a > contract with some company for introducing a teletext service using > modified MiniTel equipment. It's interesting that in both Texas and > Oklahoma, they subsequently re-classified all "free" public access > BBS's as "businesses"... I suspect that their decision to base their new service on incompatible V.23 (I think: 1200/75 baud) modems is a fallback position. That is, even if they lose they can claim they're opening up a new market rather than entering an old one... so they don't have to provide equal access or anything like it. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Personal: ...!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com.