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[Dr. Dimitri Vulis]

Bill Stewart <stewarts at ix.netcom.com> writes:

> At 01:54 PM 2/10/96 EST, you wrote:
> >It's not difficult to imagine that governments will seek to regulate the
> >possession of modems again. Some may recall that in the U.S. it used to be
> >technically illegal to connect a modem to the phone jack without a permissio
> >from AT&T.
>
> Actually, permission from the local phone companies, who owned the system,
> I assume?  (Though I don't actually remember which parts of The Phone Company
> were involved in the Carterphone decision.)

Nope.  I used modems back when the local phone company _was AT&T. :-)

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Dr. Dimitri Vulis
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