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From: eli@pws.bull.com (Steve Elias)
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Subject: ATT TDD Wimp Out
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Date: 30 May 90 10:09:21 GMT
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Regarding ATT'S TDD discount ... It's a sad state of affairs when
this sort of program has to be discontinued.  This LD carrier
competition is getting pretty harsh.  Mr. Berch posted that deaf phone
users should not get a discount.  I disagree.

The fact that the TDD user has such poor bandwidth communications is
cause for discount.  If ATT ends the discount, don't you think that
MCI or Sprint will capitalize with a PR coup?  How does TDD traffic do
on heavily stat-muxed channels?  Perhaps MCI ought to give a discount
  -- they were fiends for stat-muxing years ago.


/eli