Toronto FreeNet stable now; wish it were co-op, tho

Taavi Burns taavi-LbuTpDkqzNzXI80/IeQp7B2eb7JE58TQ at public.gmane.org
Tue Dec 2 21:59:16 UTC 2003


On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:25:04PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I would think the line will let you call *whatever it is to activate a
> line, AND 911.  I think the 911 access was a reason they started leaving
> a dial tone on unused lines.  The simpler activation method is probably
> another reason.

I suspected as much, but was not about to test it directly.  ;)

> Now can users of Sprint phone lines get DSL yet?

AFAIK that's not been the problem...it was that Bell refused to
give Sympatico service to Sprint users.  I was pretty sure the CRTC
smacked them down for that, though.

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