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- Date: 28 Dec 92 04:07:51 GMT
- From: briang@Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: GTE Rural Area Phones Go Digital
- Message-ID: <telecom12.923.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 923, Message 7 of 9
- Lines: 24
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- In article <telecom12.919.9@eecs.nwu.edu> 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:
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- >> 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.
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- > 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.
-
- I suspect that the first reference to "no threat of calls being
- monitored" was a reference to party line evesdropping, which is
- presumed to be a rather common form of entertainment in rural areas.
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