[BC] MS objection to IBOC

[Mike McCarthy]

I see no reason why someone should be paying a premium for DTMF service 
today as patents only last for 27 years.  DTMF is now public domain 
technology and has been for at least 10 years.  If one is paying a 
licensing fee for using DTMF, then that's a contractual arrangement 
superceding the minimum defined by law.  "Touch Tone" as a name is 
trademarked. But again, unless that term is used in marketing, there are no 
royalties due.

20 years ago...different story as the patents had not yet run out.

MM

At 01:17 AM 7/27/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>That was probably true until they were amortized, ~40 years ago. Now it's
>gravy..
>M
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
>To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 9:58 PM
>Subject: Re: [BC] MS objection to IBOC
>
>
> > ------ At 02:33 PM 7/26/2005, Milton R. Holladay Jr. wrote: -------
> >
> > >If I'm not mistaken, Ibiquity's ancestors are the same people that charge
> > >you every month for TouchTone[R]  even though it''s more convenient   and
> > >cheaper than providing you with dial pulsing..........
> >
> > The cost is in the R&D and in pushing the huge mechanical switches
> > out the rare window in a Telco building.
> >
> > Rich
>
>
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