Me wrote in news:Me-
:

I'll bet if you sent your email traffic to a US Licensed ham station,
and he forwarded it to Norway via Internet, that it wouldn't violate
the Third Party Traffic Proabition.......

Me


I'd say you are right. It's done that way all the time. Telephone
companies in Europe would probably rather noone had internet in the home.

I'm still trying to figure out why Swiss citizens have to PAY to call
across the street on their own telephones! How absurd, a pay phone in your
kitchen...

"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
Me wrote in news:Me-
:

I'll bet if you sent your email traffic to a US Licensed ham station,
and he forwarded it to Norway via Internet, that it wouldn't violate
the Third Party Traffic Proabition.......

Me


I'd say you are right. It's done that way all the time. Telephone
companies in Europe would probably rather noone had internet in the home.

I'm still trying to figure out why Swiss citizens have to PAY to call
across the street on their own telephones! How absurd, a pay phone in
your
kitchen...

Not so absurd. The lowest cost telephone service here makes you pay per
call.
It is more cost effective if you don't make alot of outgoing calls. Also,
pay
per call is pretty normal for business phones until recently.

The Swiss may have their own telephones, but unfortunately they don;t own
the network. Costs money to operate it.

Doug

Even if I did send it via a US amateur, I would still be sending a
message intended to be passed on to a 3rd party and that is forbidden
by my licence.

I do not believe it matters if the message travels from the US to
Norway or anywhere else by the internet. the first part of the journey
is what would be outside of my licence.

Inge LA8PQ

On 2005-02-25 12:47:06 +1100, Larry W4CSC said:

Me wrote in news:Me-
:

I'll bet if you sent your email traffic to a US Licensed ham station,
and he forwarded it to Norway via Internet, that it wouldn't violate
the Third Party Traffic Proabition.......

Me


I'd say you are right. It's done that way all the time. Telephone
companies in Europe would probably rather noone had internet in the
home.

I'm still trying to figure out why Swiss citizens have to PAY to call
across the street on their own telephones! How absurd, a pay phone in
your kitchen...

Larry,

Timed local calls are a fact in the great old US of A (NYC I believe).
That is what the telephone companies want is to charge for usage rather
than a flat rate monthly rental rate. Makes them more money!

BTW 3rd party traffic was not allowed while the PMG had the monopoly on
the telephone network. Thankfully we now have a sort of competition in
Australia and the 3rd party traffic imbargo was lifted (at least with
the US). We still are restricted from dealing with certain countries
but that is political not economic ;-)

--
Regards,
John Proctor VK3JP, VKV6789
S/V Chagall