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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: Listen to phone calls on your tvro
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 17:12:37 EDT
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The Stargate hardware doesn't include a TVRO!  It's decoding and 
buffering equipment for the particular vertical interval signals
on which Stargate resides.  It has nothing to do with receiving
other sorts of signals.

By the way, just to correct a point of fact--the service (if it ever
becomes a service as opposed to an experiment) won't be "free"--there
will have to be some (hopefully quite modest) monthly fee associated
with the service.  The data (due to the very design of the vertical
interval system) will already be pretty heavily scrambled.  Some
sort of fee is absolutely necessary since we are NOT being given
the channel bandwidth in the vertical interval for free forever!

At such a time as we go into a service mode, then we're going to
have to pay the uplink people for the use of that bandwidth.  Luckily,
since they consider Stargate to be an extremely interesting and unique
"electronic publishing" non-profit-type project, we will be
paying fees much, much less than what would normally be the case.

--Lauren--