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echo: tech
to: MARK LEWIS
from: TOM WALKER
date: 2006-04-05 08:59:00
subject: modems

ML> TW> Just what in the Hell are "YOU" talking about. WE
are discussing
ML> TW> Telephone service and "Copper" is the word used to describe a
ML> TW> standard POTS line.

ML>yup and everyone knows that barbed wire was the first wire the telcos used i
ML>rural areas since it ran for miles and miles and hit every house in the area
ML>every house being 1 every few miles or so ;)

Dosne't make a hill of beans WHAT the wire is actualy made or what
king it is of the Term used is "COPPER".
And as aside note most of the wire one saw stretched across the poles
out in the country is actial Steel Wire, for the strength, and was only
copper plated, for increased conductivity.
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