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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:18:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <823083501.19679@hchworth.demon.co.uk>
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- Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake) wrote:
- >>>: >of people subscribing to AT Internet. Offer 3 months free access to AT Int
- >e
- >>rne
- >>>: t
- >>>: >and prices comparable to Demon, but with better service (that shouldn`t be
- >>har
- >>>: d
- >>>: >;) - Get some PoPs across Europe and USA via Unipalm Pipex and Bob is inde
- >e
- >>d
- >>>: >your venerable father`s brother...
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>: This is an EXCELLENT idea!! Have you posed this scenario to the good Dr or
- >>>: to Gilles? They just might buy it if it looks monetarily worthwhile ... you
- >>>: never know if you don't try it on for size!
- >>>
- >>>They are planning on offering something like this already, 3 months access to
- >>>some IBM provider. Doesn't anyone read the AT web page?
- >
- >Yes, some of 'us' do. I meant what you were talking about specifically <---.
- >
- >>Yes, if you`d read the thread you would have discovered that I don`t like the
- >>idea of paying over the odds for IBM, when I could get a much cheaper and at
- >>least equal service from Pipex. With IBM, I have to ring Leeds (a regional, no
- >t
- >>local call), and also pay IBM an hourly fee which isn`t going to be cheap (as
- >I
- >>use the Internet heavily). Also, Local calls aren`t free in the UK, so the
- >>hourly charge isn`t popular amongst experienced Internet folk here in the UK,
- >>IMHO.
- >
- >Now, once again, have you passed this by the good Dr or by Gilles?
-
- Well, I was assuming that the Doc reads this stuff, especially by reasonably
- regular contributors like us. I bet the Doc gets a good laugh out of following
- these threads! ;) I hope he does at least. Maybe we`ve beaten out the
- foundations for a good marketing idea, but with the Surfer alread on sale in
- italy, I`m fairly sure it`s too late to adjust for the UK market - hell even a
- temporary deal with Demon UK would have done instead of the IBM one - 100% UK
- local PoP access, some degree of Amiga compatiblity, and no hourly charges.
-
- >
- >>>Wow these messages are getting long!
- >>
- >>They certainly are, I just hope Dr K. has the patience to read them all ;)
- >
- >If he's as smart as he seems, he's in Tahiti having a Mai Tai right about
- >now!! :) He and the other Amiga Technology people have earned a good stiff
- >drink for all their hard work!
-
- Well, if the A1200Plus passes our rigid acceptability test, a crate of Scotch
- is on it`s way to Bensheim...
-
-