FCC doing it again...

[Perry Metzger]

Warning: This has gotten WAY off the original topic, and has nothing
to do with unix-wizardry any more. Lets move it somewhere else, shall
we?

In article <11721 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>or were you unaware that FCC tariffs require you to
>notify the phone company when you attach a modem to the line?

Ever try actually calling them up to tell them? I know that some
places are set up for it, but I have tried several times to inform New
Jersey Bell of the ringer equivalence number of equipment I have
hooked up to the line and, law or no law, they have no idea what I am
talking about or how to record the data.

For the most part, the phone companies don't actually record the
information they lobbied so hard to require that they get. It would
cost too much to add a way to record it to the network operations
systems.

Perry