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- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
- Newsgroups: uk.telecom,uk.misc
- Subject: Most expensive phone service in Europe
- Message-ID: <7925@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:02:55 GMT
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- Searching around for evidence that BT offers the most expensive
- telephone service in Europe (the conjecture comes originally from
- Private Eye, and I have no doubt that it is true) I turned up the fact
- that, with a fair wind, a three-minute LOCAL call can cost you \pounds
- 1.81.
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- The trick is to reverse the charges. The call, of course, involves
- exactly the same amount of work as setting up any other operator
- connected local call (20p), but since the caller is likely to be in
- difficulties or urgent need, BT multiplies the price by about nine.
-
- exorbitantly, Ken Johnson
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