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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 16:32:24 -0700
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John F Hall wrote:
[ ... ]
] Finally without local phone charging Demon would have been
] unable to offer untimed flat fee local service.
This is a bogus statement.
You mean they would have had to reduce their overcommit, and
charge a higher flat rate per customer; this is not the same
thing as being unable to offer the service.
The issue is commoditization of ISP services (a level we have
not reached in the US yet).
Most ISP's in the US are flate rate unlimited usage -- with free
local calling.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.