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From: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: radio services
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Date: 4 May 91 04:10:58 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

TL> Hadn't ever heard about such a service before, thought it
 TL> sounded interesting. I've been looking in to getting online
 TL> with some database service, and reading the newspaper that way.
 TL> The cheepist service I've found so far wants only 40 dollars
 TL> an hour to be online, boy for that kind of money, I think I'l
 TL> forget about reading the news.

The Washington Ear, the Radio Reading Service that is located in Silver Spring
Maryland, and serves the Washington area, is planning on putting up a telephone
dial-up service.  They are now saying that it should be next September when it
goes on-line.  There will be a monthly subscription fee, about ten dollars I
believe, which is still cheap as long as it is a local phone call.
There are now three such services, Flint Michigan, Minneapolis-St. Paul area,
and Albuquerque, New Mexico--the one I started when I lived and worked there.
So, if you have any questions about them, ask away.

... David Andrews

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