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From: michael@stb.uu.net (Michael Gersten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: FCC doing it again...
Message-ID: <1989Dec2.070734.3853@stb.uu.net>
Date: 2 Dec 89 07:07:34 GMT
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Reply-To: michael@stb.uu.net (Michael Gersten)
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This may sound like a dumb question, but...

How can the phone company multiplex any conversation, voice or modem?
The phone company does not know ahead of time when there will be
silence on the line, both are sampled at the same frequency, so there
is the same total amount of data to be sent off, so they should be
identical for multiplexing purposes, right?

Or am I missing something very important here?

			Michael