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echo: aust_modem
to: Dave Hatch
from: Russell Brooks
date: 1996-02-28 16:08:24
subject: Re: USR Courier problems

PC>>> I don't know why they persist with different code versions, even with

SA>>  Well, Since the modems still 'comply' with AUSTEL with the ENHANCED US 



 DH> IMNSHO, the difference is to ensure that the local version is 

 DH> sufficiently

 DH> crippled to not provide serious competition for the less than competent 

 DH> among

 DH> the local manufacturers.



 DH> This case grows stronger by the day, as more and more outlandish 

 DH> crippling

 DH> misfeatures appear in putatively "improved for Australian
conditions" 

 DH> modems -

 DH> and do NOT appear in the original models before the damage is done.



AMEN



Russell



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