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In the UK most of them can be used for internet access. Or perhaps you can come to an arrangment with a neighbor to share an internet connection (via wifi)?

I did not know where you were when I wrote that, and in any case I don't know what is available to you locally.

Most people in the UK have both land-line and mobiles. It can be feasible to switch to mobile only, depending on your contract and usage of course. Some of them have "free" internet access, or some free number of megabytes downloaded per month etc. It is true that $30 per month is at the lower end of the scale and might not be acheivable with your internet usage. Then again if you are still on dial-up perhaps your internet usage is very low anyway.

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John Devereux
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JosephKK

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No long term memory? And you want to make a product that does much of what Robert wants. Consistency error.

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JosephKK

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JosephKK

It's already made, as I've previously posted.

Lacks CID pass-thru feature, but they're working on it.

Whose memory is it that's going ?:-) ...Jim Thompson

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That is an asshole thing to say.

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JosephKK

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I think that if the radio energy of handheld transmitters were a real=20 problem that there would have been substantial evidence of it in the=20 various amateur radio communities. After all they have been using=20 equally or more powerful UHF radios held up against the head for=20 far longer. Likewise emergency services personnel. In short, the evidence i have seen does not support the cell phone=20 radio energy problem.

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JosephKK

In another un-related case, i sent a number of boxes of stuff from CA to WA and some got trashed. At the receiving end (my name was used as sender and receiver as i was moving), i filed for loss as UPS is supposed to insure that. They refused to send out an investigator saying nothing got lost when clearly to anyone that actually looked, there was a large loss of contents from 2 boxes with findings packed by them into one box. I called again asking how to handle that problem and was told to file for loss. This was done about a dozen times and each time the record of filing was wantonly removed from all internal records. So i asked the WA dept of insurance (or whatever they called it then) to intervene. Well, the head of the WA dept got no response either (2 times), and so sent a letter of demand with a deadline. I then received the response dated ONE day after the deadline, with the name of the WA department head and *my* address. I know that the regional manager of UPS wanted me to open that response and thus commit a Federal Offense (tampering with the mails). Real bullshit; typical of what happens to me.

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Robert Baer

...and how does one use a cell phone for dial-up access to the internet?

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Robert Baer

Now you are saying that i can get a totally free cell phone? It is an extra cost, period - i am not that stupid.

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Robert Baer

Agreed. Once i had a "tiff" regarding a debt that never happened; letters to the billing agency and to the debt collection agencies did no good. I responded by letter every month that i got a bill with the exact same wording to no avail for almost two years. Phone calls at work from collectors were not exactly helpful for sanity. At least the monthly bills stopped; they became 2-3 times a year for five years. I kept originals of all paperwork in case they were stupid enough to take me to court.

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Robert Baer

$60/month??? Almost twice what i pay; could not afford _that_.

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Robert Baer

I use dial-up almost every day for a few hours on the average and only one needed URL is slow due to ??? (Fidelity). Mouser is not too bad; DigiKey is slightly worse.

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Robert Baer

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I agree. But it is virtually impossible to get the idiots to stop. Really asinine when the same caller calls up to 5 times in a day.

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Robert Baer

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Good point. However, if the same idiots get thru, there should be a recoverable record to use in a court of law.

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Robert Baer

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Damn, and i used to be worried about my strange excursions.

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JosephKK

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Maybe where you live, not in the US.

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JosephKK

Why? Some people do suffer from mental illnesses. Or are you of the view that suggesting that someone suffers from mental illness is an insult? Would you take the same view about a suggestion that someone has diabetes? If not, what's the difference?

Sylvia.

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Sylvia Else

How about $50 for a crappy POTS line?

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krw

Too much; more than i pay even with the new added services.

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Robert Baer

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