Re: No pain, no pair gain?

Hello Paul,


The motivation of the phone company to grant such wishes will likely be
low. First, they are usually a monopoly, so there is no competition
except cell phone. Second, they do not make money off dial-up customers.
On the contrary, if that customer uses a local dial-in node of an ISP
not related to the phone company they won't even make money for the many
hours of line time.

Thell them that you've got a heart condition and your doctor needs to
wire you up to some sort of home monitoring equipment.


I could bet they'd want to receive a fax with that prescription first. We had that issue with the rotating power outages in California. For people on ventilators that was a real scare. Well, we got ourselves a new governor after that and no more outages ;-)

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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