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From: ccplumb@spurge.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb)
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Subject: Re: Alex Videotext Service -- An Update
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Date: 4 Nov 90 06:33:48 GMT
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I know someone who was interested in Alex ... at first.  Getting the
technical details he needed to do anything was like pulling teeth,
and he had lots of ideas for really cheap services.  You can price
ypur service anywhere you like, he was told ... as long as *someone*
pays the phone company 10 cents a minute.  Boom, there goes that idea.

The terminals aren't great (NAPLPS over 1200 baud isn't much fun), but
he thought someone might be able to take advantage of the really cheap
prices they were being pushed out at by setting up your own modem pool
and doing an end run around Bell.


Colin