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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 25 Dec 92 13:56:20 GMT
- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: GTE Rural Area Phones Go Digital
- Message-ID: <telecom12.919.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 919, Message 9 of 14
- Lines: 22
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- In article <telecom12.913.6@eecs.nwu.edu> jack@myamiga.mixcom.com
- writes:
-
- > The FCC allotted the Quitaque system up to 23 frequencies in the range
- > of 450 megahertz, Langley said. The system can handle as many as 92
- > simultaneous telephone conversations.
-
- > Skeptical residents warmed to the system after officials met with them
- > to explain benefits: No more lines broken by ice or high winds; no
- > threat of calls being monitored; greater clarity.
-
- So, let's see: the phone calls are transmitted over radio now, so that
- eliminates that threat of them being monitored? And since they are
- not cellular telephone calls, it may even be legal to monitor them
- under the ECPA.
-
- Right.
-
-
- louie
-
-