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- From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: FCC considering "modem fees" again
- Message-ID: <3436@faatcrl.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:54:07 GMT
- References: <rlcarr.04qa@animato.network23.com> <1T9FoB6w164w@zswamp.UUCP> <62802@cup.portal.com> <3417@faatcrl.UUCP> <Bs2KD7.9q@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ
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- jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc) writes:
-
- >jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
-
- >> Update your database, CIS has had a montly flat rate for basic services
- >>for quite awhile now.
-
- >Really? Im interested. What is the fee, and what are some services
- >included? What are the time of day restrictions?
- >Hmm...how about someone just tell me CIS' customer service # and Ill call
- >them and ask. :)
-
- Dunno the number off-hand, but 1-800-555-1212 should be able to give you
- their 800 number.
-
- The rates are something like $10/month, maybe a bit less, and offer much of
- what GEnie offers for the basic package, email, shopping mall, daily news bytes
- and some other things. All the forums still get a hourly charge of $12.95 for
- 2400bps.
-
- No matter how bad some others make out the high cost of CIS over their
- cheaper systems, the one benefit you have is the ability to use automated
- messaging programs like TapCIS for the PeeCee or Whap! for the Amiga. Both
- are supported online there and can really make for some economical messaging,
- so long as you resist downloading and save that for a local BBS or new Fish
- disk.
-
- Another plus, especially people like me who are not local to a Tymnet or
- Telenet indial is the fact the CIS often has a local indial that doesn't add
- another few dollars per hour to the connection.
-
- -jack-
-