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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
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Subject: Re: Phone Connections East/West Germany
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Date: 15 Dec 89 14:27:16 GMT
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In article <1979@accuvax.nwu.edu>, HGSCHULZ@cs (Henning Schulzrinne) writes:
 `The following are excerpts translated from the November 18 edition of
 `the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, West Germany (translated 
 `without permission):
 `
 `"Calling the GDR is almost hopeless"
 `====================================
 `

A few days ago the PTT-ministers of the FRG and GDR governments met.
The FRG is offering upgrades to the GDR telephone system (especially
Berlin) and to the connections between the two.

 
Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31-30-531806   Uucp:   uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet
Telefax:   +31-30-513791   Internet:  piet@cs.ruu.nl   (*`Pete')