Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!tymix!cirrusl!dhesi%cirrusl From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: FCC doing it again... Message-ID: <1145@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 89 02:34:17 GMT References: <1989Nov28.011514.4193@virtech.uucp> <246@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> <5464@internal.Apple.COM> <128505@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Reply-To: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 21 In article <128505@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> henry%angel@Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) writes: >The huge increase in use of personal computers and modems >have created a singularity in the traffic patterns for >telephone calls. The operating companies simply cannot >respond to this increased demand in any reasonable amount >of time given the current technology. Expect the situation >to get worse for the next ten years or so. Nonsense. Telephone companies have known for more than ten years about increasing modem usage. Anybody with an ounce of sense who has been reading the microcomputer journals has known the same thing for about ten years. A glance at any popular computer publication will show you that increasing modem usage, far from being a secret, has been repeatedly commented on by journalists. Where have the telephone companies been hiding? Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi