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Metroliner telephone article 4066
Would that be in my apartment? *snip* HDTV is the AM Stereo of the 2000's. The sad thing being the FCC seems determined to force it on everyone...
Metroliner telephone article 4067
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:36:42 GMT, Philip Nasadowski Probably. The "bridge" is the splitter that separates the two. If you...
OT Metroliner telephone article 4068
That little dongle is a simple low-pbutt filter to keep the higher frequencies DSL uses from...
Metroliner telephone article 4069
It's more likely in the CO. Basically, the DSL and POTS service come from different switches and...
Metroliner telephone article 4070
Well, yeah, but, do we really need 60 someodd UHF channels anyway? Surely, the market for over the air TV never went to...
Metroliner telephone article 4071
Television doesn't use an FM subcarrier for the sound. Many years ago in the days of yore, the sound was carried by an FM sound transmitter that was completely independent of the...
Metroliner telephone article 4072
Ahh yes, those things. Worked wonderfully, didn't they? ;) Later UHF tuners looped the IF through the VHF tuner to get an...
Metroliner telephone article 4073
Totally agreed -- the number of channels today is ridiculous. Even with the duplication here (Dallas and...
Metroliner telephone article 4074
I can't speak for the Spanish speaking part of South America, but some of that has been influenced by Globo (a Brazilian...
Metroliner telephone article 4075
Most network prime-time programming is already 1080i or 720p. It's not as big a share of the TV marketplace as a few years ago, but...
Metroliner telephone article 4076
Geoffrey F. Green Having dealt with that a few years ago, may I elaborate: Condos and...
Metroliner telephone article 4077
This is an area of law that I practice in..... Most states now have case law that says that the restrictions have to be reasonable. The burden of proof of...
Metroliner telephone article 4078
Phil Kane It is rare that condo convenant restrictions or board actions are found to be unreasonable and against public policy. IIRC, the CAI (Community buttociations Insbreastute) stated about 90% of disputes are settled...
Metroliner telephone article 4079
Phil Kane My condo's documents allow for open records (actually they say a mortgage company may review the books). However, what consbreastutes "open records" is up to the discretion of the Board. If a Board...
Metroliner telephone article 4080
To follow-up, hanchicken4 is certainly correct about the fact that your ownership rights may limit your ability to...
Metroliner telephone article 4081
It's not so simple getting the wires from the street to the unit. You can't run wires on the outside of the building. So, to get the wire into your unit you need...
Metroliner telephone article 4082
I believe Bloomberg WBBR is 1130 the former WNEW-AM. (Long time since my college radio DJ days...) I think the FCC deregulation's cut back that requirement for full call sign and...
Metroliner telephone article 4083
It's legal, but no commercial broadcast operator would do it because it'd annoy their listeners. It's common on...
Metroliner telephone article 4084
You're in the right area of the set. Ok, first, for those just tuning in: Color TV sets or early vintages (and maybe today, I guess), needed pretty tight regulation of the high...
Metroliner telephone article 4085
You can't bill the advertisers if you aren't on the air.... The ESB was the location of the NY TV channel transmitters before the WTC was built, and some stations kept standby equipment...
post 911 recovery, was: Metroliner telephone article
misc snip Only one of the VHF stations, WCBS (channel 2) had a secondary transmitter. I'm not quite 100 percent certain it was on the ESB as opposed...
Metroliner telephone article 4087
This is a very interesting contrast between the phone systems here and in Brazil: 1. When I have visited even very...
Metroliner telephone article 4088
Why? because they were flat out better and more successful than GTE? Not as bad, though. And...
Metroliner telephone article 4089
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:46:16 GMT, Philip Nasadowski Yup. Costs me either .75 or 1.75 per month, I forget which. The only advantage of that is that I have...
Metroliner telephone article 4090
Unpublished does not mean no one can find-see-or otherwise obtain your phone number. There are many, many ways of gaining non pubished information, as the recent...
Metroliner telephone article 4091
That should only be available on inward wats & 911. I have multiple phone lines. Outgoing calls are on a line that has no ringer. If some fool insists on having a phone...
Metroliner telephone article 4092
It's available on any SS7 circuit. SS7 always pbuttes the ANI information, and if you block caller ID, it just sets the "private" bit in...
Metroliner telephone article 4093
service proof service Hate did Well "Verizon" in NYC is really no better, as one must pbutt a Credit Debt check before they will install...
Metroliner telephone article 4094
Right, but that's the only way to pay for the horrendous cost of the LNP system. It's similar...
Metroliner telephone article 4095
James Robinson That's not the way it happened. I think you're comparing today's technological circumstances against that of the past. In the 1960s and 1970s technology did not advance...
Metroliner telephone article 4096
James Robinson I was speaking of the 1960s and 1970s. I am not all surprised you had trouble after 1980. Things were a mess. The...
Metroliner telephone article 4097
Of course that benefit was for the administration of the Bell System, and may or may not have ever benefited a customer directly! Unfortunately, efficient...
Metroliner telephone article 4098
Floyd L. Davidson I would suggest you read the previously mentioned references and you'll that your comments are not correct. The Bell System certainly did vary its services in response to various...
Metroliner telephone article 4099
Brooks published "Telephone" in 1976, and it cannot possibly make the statement you are attributing to it. The anti-trust suit was filed in 1974, just prior to Brooks publishing date, and he might well...
Metroliner telephone article 4100
I said they could not deal with *regional* and *local* differences between customers. Which is to say that they might will meet all the needs of...
Metroliner telephone article 4101
writes: A friend of mine once built IMSAI boxes to use as data concentrators, first into a Burroughs 17xx, then into the IBM System-3 that replaced...
Metroliner telephone article 4102
Phil Kane It wasn't obviously as good as now, but people found ways to stay connected. Keep in mind the original theme of this thread--improved mobile phones on a train used by...
Metroliner telephone article 4103
At radio frequencies, which is what we are talking about here, the signal travels on the surface of the wire and doesn't penetrate...
OT Metroliner telephone article 4104
Answers below refer to US-CA style power; the details will be different in 240V countries I know you can...
Metroliner telephone article 4105
Telephone companies in general have always had a different atbreastude about service, even than other companies that have monopolies of sorts, like cable companies. In all these...
Metroliner telephone article 4106
No. I don't look at growth. Somewhere in a.f.c. newsgroup within the last month there was discussion...
Metroliner telephone article 4107
Cyrus Afzali I can't speak for the entire marketplace (do you have some statistics?) but...
Metroliner telephone article 4108
That has to be just about the most ridiculous argument I've ever heard in regard to...
Metroliner telephone article 4109
When is the last time that you saw a plumber or electrician show up in a suit and tie? A telephone repairer is in the same category. S-he's not a sales rep...
Metroliner telephone article 4110
I doubt many cable users told you that, because that's the old line the phone company trots out. In reality, cable's...
Metroliner telephone article 4111
I've been pulled out my car and beaten for "evading arrest" by a real cop...
Metroliner telephone article 4112
Cyrus Afzali You have to understand that Verizon is a very big company now that includes numerous former Bell companies that had different traditions, as well as totally different Independent (non-Bell) local telephone companies...
Metroliner telephone article 4113
Cyrus Afzali Which themselves were combinations of various and different Bell companies. Telcos never said that. The heritage involves rates and rate schedules which were set by PUCs and corporate...
telcom compebreastion, was: Metroliner telephone article
This argument is getting more and more bogus as time goes by. I am connected to two ISP's. One comes with the housing, and delivers...
Metroliner telephone article 4115
Moot point. They delivered it, so they might has well have said it. Mergers are always supposed to be chiefly good for the business and shareholders...
Metroliner telephone article 4117
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:19:44 +0200, Morten Reistad Telegraphs needed fairly send people.. Yes, they could have been simplified. getting down to the concept of an idea, the problem somewhat with the train was...
Metroliner telephone article 4119
Morten Reistad I'm not sure what is meant here, but my interpretation was that someone claimed WU was obsolete in the 1970s. The answer is complex. WU certainly had long ceased using Morse...
Metroliner telephone article 4120
Sigh. Ose Occam's Razor a little, please. With such a surge in oil demand, and a...
Metroliner telephone article 4121
payments, (witness They don't have to worry about me. They're doing a bang-up job by themselves: "Aug...
Metroliner telephone article 4122
Let me introduce you to three key figures in valuing companies. The first is Price-Earnings, or P-E. This is how many years the company must make...
Metroliner telephone article 4123
The guys who serviced IBM Selectric typewriters used to wear three piece *+-suits. My first job out of college was at a medical center. The IBM *+-guy would...
Metroliner telephone article 4124
I had the opposite result with the Comcast person being there before both then JCP&L folks and the power folks...
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