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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Fcc Regs/Data Comm.
Message-ID: <1970@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 90 20:21:54 GMT
References: <31A.news.misc@pro-generic> <70194@looking.on.ca>
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <70194@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

| 	o) Modem calls last far longer than voice calls in the local
| 	calling area, for one thing.  One of the reasons businesses pay
| 	a premium for phone lines is that they use their lines a great
| 	deal more than home users.

  I miss your reasoning here. We are already paying by the message unit,
why charge a higher rate, too? Long calls already cost more than short
calls in most areas, why stick modem users with a surcharge on top of
that.
| 
| 	o) Modem calls involve continuous transmission of singal in both
| 	  directions at all times.  Voice calls are almost always half
| 	  duplex (except with rude people!) and also full of the gaps between
| 	  words and other pauses.  (Being put on hold, for example.)

  Do you know of a system which does "data detect" on voice calls? I
am under the impression that they still use time division multiplexing.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon