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From: kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Modem Users Beware: BELL $$$
Message-ID: <764@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 12:17:31 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 17 12:17:31 1983
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[ Why can't the phone company reuse my 'think-time' for other calls and not
  charge me for it? ]

Your modem sends a carrier out whether you are sending characters or not.
So does the modem at the other end.  These signals must be present.  If a
modem stops sending, the modem at the other end is apt to hang up.

So you see your phone is active the whole time whether you are transmitting
usful stuff on it or not.  The phone company has a right to charge you for
this resource since it cannot reclaim it.

Maybe we need a different kind of modem?

-- 
Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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