From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 21 05:27:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA22627 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 05:27:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from DegNet.de (degnet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22615 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 05:27:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.prv (GateWay [192.168.168.1]) by DegNet.de (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id OAA06345; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:26:39 +0100 Received: from neuron.webmore.prv (neuron.webmore.prv "Malte Lance") by neuron.webmore.prv (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02961; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:18:02 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199812211318.OAA02961@neuron.webmore.prv> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:18:00 +0100 (CET) From: Malte Lance Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Subject: Re: Phone rates (was: Cool, A White Snowy Christmas in Sunnyvale, C alifornia 8)) To: grog@lemis.com cc: brett@lariat.org, netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981221142828.W24125@freebie.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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