Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: oracle!oracle.com!nsoley@uunet.uu.net (Norman Soley) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Complaint to Telco Brings Hostile Service Person! Message-ID: <12382@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 20 Sep 90 19:55:49 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Norman Soley Organization: Oracle Corporation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 23 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 662, Message 8 of 10 In article <12347@accuvax.nwu.edu> brian@apt.bungi.com (Brian Litzinger) writes: >Also, I believe the reason the phone companies become hostile is >because they believe you are stealing service when you run data over a >voice line. They mistakenly think you are using more than you are >paying for. Once upon a time someone told me that the reason a data line costs more was because a voice call used less bandwidth when it was multiplexed with other calls on a trunk than a data call did (accompanied with a rather hokey explanation about voice having lots of silent parts but data was always "noisy") at the time I bought it (hey, give me a break I was in High School) but now I have all this fancy technical education which tells me I was probably slid a line. Well was I? Norman Soley - Systems Administrator - Oracle Corporation Canada 155 University Ave. Suite 400 Toronto, Ontario (416)-362-7953 X646 nsoley@cnseq1.oracle.com uunet!torsqnt!cnseq1!nsoley "These opinions are mine, not the company's"