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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
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