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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1991 15:42:18 GMT
From: "Marc T. Kaufman" <kaufman@neon.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Pet Peeve About Newer Modems (was Telephone Keypads)
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> to feel the same way ... but USR lets you go off hook and bang those
> digits right out if you set the register for it.   PAT]

The regulation in question is 68.314(a)(2), but it applies to answer,
not originate:

  68.314 Billing Protection

    (a)    Call duration requirements on data equipment connected to
           the Public Switched Network, or to Tie Trunks, or to
           Private Lines that access the Public Switched Network.

    (2)    Registered terminal Equipment

    Registered terminal equipment for data applications shall assure
    that, when an incoming telephone call is answered, the answering
    terminal equipment prevents both transmission and reception of
    data for at least two seconds after the answering terminal equipment
    transfers to the off-hook condition.


Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)