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From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
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Subject: Re: flat rates for Internet/phone (Re: X on dial-in)
Date: 14 Mar 1995 08:18:54 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada
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References: <D3s19v.4M7@pe1chl.ampr.org> <3jith7$81c@park.uvsc.edu> <3k1fh9$f19@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <3k219i$c2u@park.uvsc.edu>
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In article <3k219i$c2u@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:

>I realize you're just being the devil's advocate, but the "fogeys"
>in question are the accountants who want to continue to amortize
>the 15 year old rural electro-mechanical switches another 5 years
>to get the full 20 years out of them.

No, the fogies are those who want to continue to amortise the five
year old GE switches to get the full twenty years out of them. They
might be willing to add ISDN to them, though, if you're willing to pay
the arm and the leg that it costs to do so.

cjs
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