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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re^2: FCC doing it again...
Message-ID: <1989Dec4.171729.23603@siia.mv.com>
Date: 4 Dec 89 17:17:29 GMT
References: <128505@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4979@macom1.UUCP>
Organization: Software Innovations, Inc.
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larry@macom1.UUCP (Larry Taborek) writes:

>although I agree with you that the phone company costs are
>escalating because of modems, I also see that the phone company
>revenues are escalating because of modems.

Much of modem use is un-metered.  That is, because the use is residential,
the local phone company, in fact, gets no extra revenue.

Remember that the long distance charges are now all going to
the long distance carrier.

David Dick
Software Innovations, the Software Moving Company (sm)
drd@siia.mv.com