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Originally Posted by barryem
If you connected a modem to your phone line to dial into a BBS service and they found out about it they added a $50 a month charge to your phone bill. This was in the days when a typical phone bill was less than $10 a month. That went on for a lot of years until laws were changed to prevent it.
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I was BBSing in the days of 300 baud modems (I'm pretty sure I can still whistle a 300 baud carrier tone) and just at the end of 110 baud acoustic coupler days, and I thankfully was never aware of any supposed charge for modem use. Could this have been limited to certain Bell operating companies?