Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:28:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Phone rates (was: Cool, A White Snowy Christmas in Sunnyvale, California 8)) Message-ID: <19981221142828.W24125@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981220203743.04583160@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 08:38:44PM -0700 References: <19981220235019.A6362@keltia.freenix.fr> <4.1.19981220152518.00ac53d0@genesis.ispace.com> <Your <4.1.19981220151248.00ac5c60@genesis.ispace.com> <199812202020.MAA46296@rah.star-gate.com> <4.1.19981220152518.00ac53d0@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981220213341.009a9160@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981220203743.04583160@mail.lariat.org>
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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. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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