Hi there folx,
From the 'For What Its Worth' Department.
- paul
BELL VS. INTERNET PROVIDERS Bell Canada plants to increase line rate charges for Internet service providers by as much as 400%, saying the higher charge is necessary because those providers use lines for 55 to 60 minutes every hour compared with voice usage on a Centrex line of about 10 minutes. The service providers say the move aims to eliminate competition for Bell when it introduces its Worldlinx Internet access by the end of this year. (Montreal Gazette 9 Nov 95 D7)
The same outrages story is going on in Russia ... they're trying to force ppl. with modems pay 2-5 times more for the telephone service. Scumbugs even designed devices to listen periodically to the random lines in the TelCo COs , trying to get a modem carrier. And if they find one , they put some kind of filter on that line which makes impossible to use the modem - till you pay the dough I think that it is the point in certain other countries with state/one company monopoly in communications. Rashid