Re: DOV on PM3
Richard_R.Moore (MOORERR@msu.edu)
Wed, 06 Aug 97 11:39 EDT
> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:05:45 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Stephen Zedalis <tintype@exis.net>
> To: "Richard_R.Moore" <MOORERR@msu.edu>
> cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com, tom@sdf.com
> Subject: Re: DOV on PM3 (was modem calls to PM3 with no modems)
>
>
> I also wanted an option to turn this "feature" off.
>
> >You may hate it, but in michigan ameritech territory DOV can save a busines
> >many hundreds of dollars in a year.
>
> Until they catch you... Here in Virginia, Bell Atlantic and GTE both use
> traffic monitors on their lines. If they catch you using DOV and you are
> paying residential and/or voice-only rates, you get socked with the normal
> data rate you should have paid plus a penalty. If Ameritech looks the
> other way great. But several providers in our area learned the lesson the
> hard way.
>
>
Not in michigan, ameritech. It not only is tarriffed this way, my ameritech
salesperson readily & willingly supplies these lines. Nothing is hidden. The
only problem, of course, is trying to place a long distance ISDN DOV call.