rf@wu1.UUCP (10/17/83)
The planned increase in modem costs is part of the Bell companies plans' to charge for actual services used. It seems likely that in the coming digital network, voice services will cost more than data services since a digitized voice signal requires 56,000 bits/sec. of circuit-switched channel bandwith. A 1200 bits/second digital signal requires about 1/50 of that bandwith, possibly packet switched. It could be that telegraphy is the wave of the future. Randolph Fritz Western Union Telegraph