Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:18:00 +0100 (CET) From: Malte Lance <malte.lance@gmx.net> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: brett@lariat.org, netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Phone rates (was: Cool, A White Snowy Christmas in Sunnyvale, C alifornia 8)) Message-ID: <199812211318.OAA02961@neuron.webmore.prv> In-Reply-To: <19981221142828.W24125@freebie.lemis.com>
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On 21 Dec, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 20 December 1998 at 20:38:44 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >> At 09:34 PM 12/20/98 -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: >> >>> Do you pay per-minute charges for local calls? friend of mine when he lived >>> in England it was like that.. I couldn't even imagine paying for my net >>> time like that. >> >> In England, they have a SPECIAL AREA CODE with a high per-minute rate for >> nationwide services such as CompuServe. And there's NO flat rate, anywhere. > > Now consider that the British rates are relatively low in Europe, and > you'll understand how bad the situation is over there. When I > returned to Australia from Germany, my network bills dropped by over > 90%, though I now have a full-time connect and about 10 times as much > traffic. Here a phone call costs about $0.18 regardless of duration, > and a MB of Internet trafffic costs about $0.13. In Germany, I was > paying about $0.40 per minute for the phone and $6 per megabyte. > Man ... stop that !!! Do NOT hold up the unbeautified reality in front of my eyes. This "Deutsche Telekom"-bastards are sucking all the blood out of me. Malte. > Greg -- Malte Lance. --- composed with TkRat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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