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Article #17894Re: Caller I.D. Software - Is there any that works in U.K.?
From: Crew
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 00:00
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>I've heard that the Gas Bods are toying with meters that can be read >remotely. Reading between your lines, am I correct in thinking that the gas >meter would have a modem that listened for a CLI number that it recognised, >then picks up the line and spits out the reading? That's quite good - it >(presumably) costs me nothing as the Gas Bod pays for the call. But hope >they'll give a discount for borrowing the use of my line! What happens to your REN count with an extra modem on the telco line. I have 2 phones, Modem and answering machine my REN =4, Now the Gas & presumably the power meters (water ? in due course) will all add to this, so what happens to the telco line ??? apart from the ringing failing.. Jeff
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102a94,61f4a5cfceeb17ca X-Google-Attributes: gid102a94,public From: crew@teejay.demon.co.uk (Crew) Subject: Re: Caller I.D. Software - Is there any that works in U.K.? Date: 1997/02/04 Message-ID: <32f7a42f.15046401@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 214468514 x-nntp-posting-host: teejay.demon.co.uk references: <32e40cd0.18166443@news.demon.co.uk> <32e90966.9277420@news.demon.co.uk> <854366350snx@llondel.demon.co.uk> <32f1408f.39544517@news.demon.co.uk> organization: G & S Ent. reply-to: crew@teejay.demon.co.uk newsgroups: demon.tech.modems