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From: David Lesher <wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
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Subject: Long Calls (was: Modems/Call Waiting)
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Date: 31 Aug 90 14:32:07 GMT
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{can you time up a dial-up line all 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.  

An alarm distributor once told me that Sonitrol {sp} tried this. They
offered an alarm system that triggered on loud noises inside the
buildings at night. Then the alarm office could listen, mike by mike,
to hear if it was an intruder, or a burping furnace.

To do they, they used standard dialup lines, and kept them open all
night, or all weekend. Ma took them up the court ladder, and won. I
suspect the tariffs have some catchall phrase about "abnormal use" or
such.


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