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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 04:47:07 PST
- From: rlm@mcgort.COM (Robert McMillin)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: GTE Rural Area Phones Go Digital
- Message-ID: <telecom12.920.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: PBSR (Private Beta Site Research - Certified NetWare Engineer)
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 920, Message 3 of 11
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- louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
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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.
-
- Perhaps the unwritten assumption made by the author here is that the
- links are point-to-point microwave using parabolic dishes. This would
- make it harder, not impossible, to monitor calls than ordinary
- cellular, which is omnidirectional.
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