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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Registrated developer, myth or reality?
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 09:31:41 GMT
- Organization: News Corporation
- Message-ID: <4guj1t$4p5@klein.iguide.com>
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- In article <paul.3x2d@serena.iaehv.nl>, paul@serena.iaehv.nl wrote:
- >On Sat, 24 Feb 96, Michael van Elst typed the following line(s):
- >
- >> >BIX is quite easily accessible via the Internet using telnet. So why don't YOU
- >> >get off your pet high horse and look at reality rather than idly spouting BIX
- >> >hate. It ill becomes you.
- >> So what ? It definitely means significantly higher costs.
- >
- >It does. I got some figures from Joanne about BIX subscription.
- >For me this comes out as follows. Based on 30 hours a month and
- >including phonecharges etc.
- >
- >Internet: US$ 22.- a month. Including 30 hours. (and all other stuff)
- > extra hours: $.45 an hour.
- > Local call : hourly $1 phonecharges [off peak]
- >
- >Bix : $13 a month. $ 1 per hour. -> 30 hours is $43 a month
- > extra hours: $ 1 an hour.
- > Non-local : hourly $3.40 phonecharges [off peak]
- >
- >Monthly costs. Based on 30 hours. Including phone charges.
- >InterNet : $22. + (30 * $1.-) = $ 52.-
- >Bix : $43 + (30 * $3.40) = $145.-
- >Bix via Inet : $22 + $43 + (30 * $1.-) = $ 95.-
- >
- >According to Joanne BIX does have some bulk hour deals, but she did
- >not give me the figures for those. Looking at the above, it shows
- >that for me BIX is almost 3 times as expensive using it's own dialin
- >and about 45% more expensive using Telnet via my ISP. Which will
- >probably not allow me to use all the features offered through it's
- >own dialin.
-
- Whereinell did you get those numbers. BIX costs $13/month with a $1/hour access
- charge. Average daily use using the OLRs we have is on the order of 5 to 10
- minutes. Picking the larger number and figuring a 30 day month you get 300
- minutes, 5 hours. So the incremental cost of BIX per month over the internet
- ADSP access is about $18. Where that $145 came from is a mystery to me. You made
- some assinine assumptions there. 30 hours access time for BIX is a gawdawful lot
- of time to spend on the service for only the Amiga related material.
-
- >Take care,
- >--__
- > /_/ |/ E-mail: paul@serena.iaehv.nl
- >/aul |\olenbrander WWW : http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/
- >-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-
- >\_ Please finger paul@iaehv.nl to obtain my PGP Public Key _/
-
- If you are going to say BIX is too expensive at least do it with correct
- figures, dammit.
-
- {`.'}
-
-