werner@molokai.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) (06/26/89)
In <11148@yendor.phx.mcd.mot.com>, stefan@yendor.phx.mcd.mot.com (Stefan Loesch) writes: > Sorry. No Go. There is ONE huge German monopoly : the Bundespost. > You have REAL difficulties getting anything quicker than 1200 Baud. > Hayes compatible ? Trailblazer ? You might end in prison for using > one of those. it's been a couple of months that I heard from people at unido that they have obtained a permit from the BP to use Trailblazers. I'm not sure how anyone else could get such a "experimental" permit, but the situation is improving (and, I hope, the prices charged by unido will fall). ---Werner "for many years I have considered the state of telecommu- nications in Germany a major reason not to go back there. On the other hand, they DO take my EURO-checks anywhere I go in Europe, and the only reason why the banks in the US make such a big deal about that is beause they want people to use credit cards (guess who pays for that extra profit?) how about bashing on the US-banking system every time we bash on the non-US communication systems? maybe we can get both fixed then... :-)" -- --------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------ INTERNET: uhrig@mcc.com (if unavailable: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu) UUCP: ...<well-connected-site>!milano!werner ALTERNATIVE: werner@astro.as.utexas.edu OR werner@utastro.UUCP