[9848] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: Internet "PayPhones"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Gregers Bilse)
Mon Jan 24 05:04:25 1994
From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@eu.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 11:03:45 +0200
In-Reply-To: <9401221825.AB09770@iscmed.med.ge.com>
Reply-To: noc@eu.net
To: walkerl@med.ge.com (Larry Walker), com-priv@psi.com
Cc: noc@eu.net
On Jan 22, 12:25, Larry Walker wrote:
> Now this is an idea I've also toyed with since wandering the streets of
> Amsterdam last year looking for a phone connection. I was staying at a very
> inexpensive hotel with no PBX. After an abortive attempt to reach my email
>[...]
This discussion seems to have spilled into com-priv from another
origin -- at least, I didn't see the start. Anyway, there are
solutions to the basic problems:
1) For the plug-problem, a British company (TeleAdapt) is
manufacturing/selling adapters for practically all the different
kinds of telephone plugs you'll find. They also sell
noise-filters, line-test equipment, acoustic couplers claimed to
be able to handle V.32, and even a cellular telephone data
interface. They can be reached as 100111.2713@compuserve.com
2) Once hooked up, in most European countries you can get dial-up
Internet access via a local (at worst, national) telephone call,
from EUnet, provided you have an Internet-connected home host.
What we provide is an 8bit clean telnet herald, allowing the user
to telnet to a home (or any other, for that matter) host. Telnet
to traveller.EU.net for more information; it's a simple credit
card deal.
Sorry for the obvious advertising content, but there's a lot of
people looking for solutions to this.
We seriously considered making EUnet Traveller, as it's called,
genuine IP, BTW, but dropped the idea in the initial deployment.
Providing an IP connection would mean either assigning dynamically an
IP number on each connection, or reserving a series of numbers for
the user to use throughout Europe, depending on where the connection
was made (anything else would generate an unwanted amount of routing
updates). Both solutions present problems of their own, and reducing
the 'technology content' to a telnet session made the whole thing
much more feasible and available to many more users.
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