gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Gauthier) (11/22/90)
The company I work for just held a joint conference locally with Unitel and I was able to corner one of their reps to ask about the use of Unitel's FacsRoute with modems. They say it will work perfectly and don't mind in the least if you do it. For $9.99 a month (no installation fee!) you get a little black box which goes between your modem/fax and the phone jack on the wall. When you make an outgoing LD call it dials in to a local Unitel office and you are patched through to their network and your LD call is completed by them. They claim savings of 40% over regular phone rates. If you're making more than, say, $30 a month in LD calls to Canada from within Canada (I think he said it offered discounts to some US calls, not sure, call and ask) you really have nothing to lose by giving it a try. I don't believe you are obligated to continue using it if you ever find the service unsatisfactory. Drop a line here and let me know if you try it and how much you save. gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca tyrant@dalac.bitnet tyrant@ac.dal.ca [Moderator's Note: Can you please give us the number to call for information on this service, with contact names if possible? PAT]
scott@uunet.uu.net (Scott Campbell) (11/23/90)
>In article <14718@accuvax.nwu.edu> gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul >Gauthier) writes: >> A Canadian Company has recently begun to offer a special reduced >>rate to fax users. The user pays only a small monthly fee ($10, I >>think) and receives a little black box which attaches to their fax >>machine. .... <much stuff deleted> >> Does anyone know if such services actually detect and interpret fax >>protocol to decide whether to axe the call? I spoke to someone at Unitel today in their service department. He told me that the little box detects whether it is a voice call or a modem call. If the black box decides you are talking on the data line, it just kicks you off. (I didn't think to ask him about the case where you have one fax operator doing a voice request because of a problem.) Apparently, modems up to 2400 baud will be counted as a fax by the box so you could use it as a data line. However, high speed modems, he said, caused problems; the box would sometimes confuse the data as voice and just boot you. The Courier HST was one in particular that had problems. He did not seem to know for sure about the Telebit PEP. If anyone has any experience at all in this, I would really like to hear it. Scott J.M. Campbell scott@skypod.uucp Skypod Communications Inc. (416) 961-3847 57 Charles St. West, #1310 Toronto, Ontario {problem|becker|torag|nyama}!skypod!scott
gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Gauthier) (11/23/90)
In article <14917@accuvax.nwu.edu> gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Gauthier) writes: [40% reduction in LD for $9.99/month from Unitel Canada] >[Moderator's Note: Can you please give us the number to call for >information on this service, with contact names if possible? PAT] I have a business card from the gentleman I was speaking with: J. Michael Curry [Account Representitive] Business: (902)429-9065 Fax: (902)429-5493 He is in the Halifax office. gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca tyrant@dalac.bitnet tyrant@ac.dal.ca
psmith@cs.uwindsor.ca (psmith) (11/28/90)
In article <14917@accuvax.nwu.edu>, gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Gauthier) writes: > the use of Unitel's FacsRoute with modems. They say it will work > perfectly and don't mind in the least if you do it. ... > [Moderator's Note: Can you please give us the number to call for > information on this service, with contact names if possible? PAT] Unitel's Sales office in (at least) SW Ontario is 1-800-265-7814. Nobody there right now (7pm EST); guess they're not in Vancouver. :-) Peter Smith