Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bbn!apple!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: MCI FAX Network Message-ID: Date: 21 May 89 14:12:53 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 173, message 4 of 7 In article , lars@salt.acc.com (Lars Poulsen) writes: > It would seem to make no sense at all to maintain a dedicated ... > use it as a price list for my MCI telephone calls ? > If the prices are different for phone and FAX, why ? If they are > lower than the phone prices, what's to stop me from pretending The fax network is actually a non-real-time (i.e. store & forward) fax delivery service.. It will accept your fax traffic using a fax modem. I don't think it will hear your voice! By compressing a lot of fax traffic into high-speed data packets, they can send it to a dis-assembly system near the destination and then re-sent from a fax modem to the recipient's fax machine. This makes it less expensive than voice, but not interchangeable. -- Dave Levenson {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave ...the man in the mooney