Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: David M Archer Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: What Would it Take For Modems to Recognize Call Waiting? Message-ID: <11470@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 29 Aug 90 08:32:59 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: v116kznd@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 22 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 605, Message 8 of 10 In article <11444@accuvax.nwu.edu>, mje99!mje@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Mark J Elkins) writes... >As one customer used to do ... dedicate a phone line just for modem >use. His cost was 2 X monthly rental which was 18 Rand X 2 which is >about $13 a month for the total cost of the line - etc (both ends). >When the PO found out - they were not too happy - they developed some >manual routine of disconecting him some time about 5pm each night - so >he was forced to make at least one call a day. They don't like people >doing this, as it competes with their own 'data-line' service which >costs a lot more per month. Are they, the phone company(s), allowed to do this? I've never heard of a maximum period of time for a phone call. I consulted my phone book, and the term it uses is untimed. I'd call the customer representatives once a day and request a credit. After all, my phone call was interrupted by them, and so their "equipment failure" required me to make a second phone call. Seems appropriate to me. I ask about this, because I can quite easily see myself doing something similiar in the future.