>
>Ed Craig wrote:
>>
>> A technique that often works well with recalcitrant phone
>> companies around here (Oregon) is to complain of poor quality fax
>> reception. For some reason, fax modems get more attention than computer
>> modems when something's gone sour. Lately, most of the modems I've seen
>> have been fax capable, so you'd only be stretching the truth a little, if
>> at all. (For all I know, y'all do use your modems for faxing).
>
>Complaining about bad fax service is the only way you
>can force the phone company to improve your line quality.
>It is an FCC regulation that all phone lines must be
>capable of 9600(?) baud fax service. This is the only
>rule that keeps the phone companies from switching
>to voice-only bandwidth lines.
>The big companies are lobbying congress to allow complete
>digitalization of the phone lines, which would allow them
>to sell voice-only service, and share 20 phones on a single
>analog line. Then fax lines, and modems will be an "extra
>service" and charged at a higher rate.
>
>Eventually, to be fair to everyone, we will have to
>pay a "per megabyte" rate. That is we will pay for
>the amount of information transferred. Satellites are
>already setup like this.
>
>So here in the US, we are "lucky" to have v.90 service
>and unlimited calling plans.
>
>-
YES you're really lucky, don't know what's to pay really big $$$ because
you've stayed to many hours (an hour in spain is nearly 1'6$!) also the
quality of servcice down here is awfully low, disconnects,
bad data rates ....
So I invite all the europeans to join the eurostrike for flat internet
connection that takes place the 31th of january.
Sorry for the offtopic
.
Vicente
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