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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:45:30 GMT
- From: Dan Ganek <ganek@apollo.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Residential ISDN?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.902.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 902, Message 2 of 8
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- In article <telecom12.894.1@eecs.nwu.edu> goldstein@carafe.dnet.
- dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein) writes:
-
- > A common myth perpetrated by the phone companies, always looking for
- > more monopoly revenue. But only a monopoly would even attempt to
- > change its price structure to something customers don't want that is
- > NOT cost-based! Cost-based pricing works for everyone. Monopoly
- > fictions don't. And usage-based local rates are a FICTION!
-
- > I've seen the studies. In most places, the PEAK cost to the telephone
- > company is well under a penny a minute. Yet measured rates are almost
- > always much higher. They're just a means to make money.
-
- Uh, have you checked with NYNEX about measured service from Littleton,
- MA? From Groton MA it's $.001/minute with, I think, a $.10 set-up charge.
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- dan ganek
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