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.
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