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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:20:51 GMT
- From: ds@netcom.com (David Schachter)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Facilities For Low-Cost, Non-US Access to US BBS's?
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- I run a computer bulletin board system (BBS) for PenPoint developers.
- The BBS is in the United States and folks in Europe and South America
- have expressed interest in accessing it, but not while paying normal
- voice phone rates for international calls! If y'all have information
- about access methods that provide interactive data transmission (e.g.
- PC Pursuit), please let me know. Thank you.
-
-
- David Schachter david@llustig.palo-alto.ca.us
- 801 Middlefield Road, #8 ...!decwrl!llustig!david
- Palo Alto, CA 94301-2916 USA After 10 am, voice & fax: +1 415 328 7425
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-
- [Moderator's Note: Well the people at Sprintnet (formerly Telenet, the
- PC Pursuit operators) do offer PC Pursuit connections once an
- international caller hits the gateway in the USA; probably at
- Sprintnet's HQ in Virginia. If your callers subscribed to PC Pursuit
- *and* made local arrangements with the PTT administration in their
- country for a data link to the USA, they could call that way, and even
- with the expensive overseas circuits they would be using plus the cost
- of PC Pursuit ($1 per hour once they get on this side) the cost would
- still probably be less than voice circuits they'd otherwise be using.
-
- Another alternative is to check out the cost of having a Sprintnet pad
- right there at your site in place of one or more of your dialup lines.
- You'd get a network address, and your overseas callers would use their
- data link to make an international data call to the USA, then onward
- to your pad and your system. You'd need to keep such a circut loaded
- all the time -- one call after another constantly -- to justify the
- cost; but if you could do this it probably would even be less
- expensive than PC Pursuit plus the international circuit otherwise.
- In addition to PC Pursuit, Sprintnet offers a corporate or business
- version of the same service for more money with more flexibility, but
- still less expensive than voice-grade lines and dialup calls would
- cost. At one time a few years ago I asked Telenet to quote me a price
- for a pad straight to my terminal from their switch in Chicago. Do not
- quote me as my memory is fading, but I think they said in my specific
- application it would be about $700 per month. I was not able to
- justify that over dialup, even with the new rates then going into
- effect with IBT (no more flat rate packages). Check them out at
- 703-689-6000. PAT]
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