Re: Telewest Communications FIASCO

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From: The Nit Nurse
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.970218210422.12679B-100000@k9.tardis.ed.ac.uk>,
Alastair B Roberts <abr@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

|> 
|> Apparently if you phone up a friend's computer, this call will be charged,
|> even if you are eligible for free local calls, and your friend is too.
|> What utter nonsense! This fails to be the case at the moment.
|> 
|> For a COMMUNICATIONS company, Telewest seem to fail to realise the
|> difference between a 14.4K modem bolted onto a 486 PC, and a full-blown T3
|> modem-dialup Internet Service Provider!!! (This is the impression I get.)

I'd have thought that it was 'calls to an ISP's PoP', in which case Embra
Yooni is your ISP and their dial-up service is the PoP. The modem speed,
type or protocol is irrelevant, you're making a call to an ISP's PoP.

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From: dam@kerrera.dcs.gla.ac.uk (The Nit Nurse)
Subject: Re: Telewest Communications FIASCO
Date: 1997/02/19
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