lars@salt.acc.com (Lars Poulsen) (05/20/89)
I just received a pretty, multi-colored brochure from MCI, headlined "What a beautiful day for a revolution". The revolution is that MCI now has "a dedicated FAX network". Is this in the same sense that they have "dedicated customer service", or do they really have a SEPARATE national long-distance telephone network that exclusively carries FAX traffic ? It would seem to make no sense at all to maintain a dedicated FAX network, when you already have a telephone network. The brochures include a price list giving per-minute charges in US mileage bands as well as internationally by country. I don't have the MCI telephone price list hand; can I save this list and use it as a price list for my MCI telephone calls ? If the prices are different for phone and FAX, why ? If they are lower than the phone prices, what's to stop me from pretending my phone is a FAX ? / Lars Poulsen ACC Customer Service LARS@SALT.ACC.COM
dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) (05/21/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0170m04@vector.dallas.tx.us>, lars@salt.acc.com (Lars Poulsen) writes: > It would seem to make no sense at all to maintain a dedicated ... > use it as a price list for my MCI telephone calls ? > If the prices are different for phone and FAX, why ? If they are > lower than the phone prices, what's to stop me from pretending The fax network is actually a non-real-time (i.e. store & forward) fax delivery service.. It will accept your fax traffic using a fax modem. I don't think it will hear your voice! By compressing a lot of fax traffic into high-speed data packets, they can send it to a dis-assembly system near the destination and then re-sent from a fax modem to the recipient's fax machine. This makes it less expensive than voice, but not interchangeable. -- Dave Levenson {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave ...the man in the mooney