On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:25:04PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

I would think the line will let you call *whatever it is to activate a line, AND 911. I think the 911 access was a reason they started leaving a dial tone on unused lines. The simpler activation method is probably another reason.

I suspected as much, but was not about to test it directly. ;)

Now can users of Sprint phone lines get DSL yet?

AFAIK that's not been the problem...it was that Bell refused to give Sympatico service to Sprint users. I was pretty sure the CRTC smacked them down for that, though. -- taa /*eof*/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml