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From: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: flat rates for Internet/phone (Re: X on dial-in)
Date: 22 Feb 1995 18:56:55 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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References: <D3s19v.4M7@pe1chl.ampr.org> <hastyD4BEzu.Jx0@netcom.com> <root.793371940@c00037-5pa.eos.ncsu.edu> <D4DH09.BAo@pe1chl.ampr.org>
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In article <D4DH09.BAo@pe1chl.ampr.org>,
Rob Janssen <pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl> wrote:
>In <root.793371940@c00037-5pa.eos.ncsu.edu> camattin@eos.ncsu.edu (Chris A. Mattingly) writes:
>
>>By that philosophy, since I only use the phone about 3% of the month, I should
>>only have to pay 3% of my current phone bill.  Will this ever happen?  No.
>
>No, your current phone bill is based on the fact that you use it only
>3% of the month.  When you would use it all the time, your bill would
>go up.

I can use my phone service as long as I please and the billing does not
change.

>Boy, are all Americans so naive?

Gee, I don't know.  Are you?  Have you ever heard of flat rate service?
Guess not.

-Clint