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Depending on who your local telco is, it can be nearly
imossible to get them to hook you up to these dry pairs. It used to be
common; then the telcos decided they'd rather not make this kind of
cheap connectivity available to the general public. I believe I've
heard of some people persuading the telco to set them up by saying it
was to be used for an alarm system between the two ends.

Yes, "burglar alarm" and "dry pair" seems to be the set of magic
phrases to use.

I've heard of people using this sort of wire pair, with a couple of
off-the-shelf SDSL modems, to create a very effective medium-haul data
link between buildings a few miles apart.

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