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Re: How do you make connection to Laptops with digital cell phones?

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Mike Bell (athasian@altavista.net)
Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:46:23 -0800

On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 07:28:45AM -0500, Li Chen wrote:
> Say you got a server with a constant net connection and a modem to a POTS
> line and you want to make connections to those ubiquitous digital cell
> phones<->serial cord<->laptop/PDAs. What are the terminologies? Where are
> the how-tos on such call making? Will existing call-back scripts work?
> (work as in the server's modem makes a call to the cell's phone number,
> the serial line takes the cell's signal and wakes up/trigger the laptop
> PPP handshaking script--a transparent translation between analog signal
> and digital signal provided by the phone company)

connections yet, so the only way to do it, assuming the data on the web page
is correct, would be with a cellular modem and a standard POTS line at the
other end. 

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