Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marvin Sirbu) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Description of the German Cellular System Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 89 13:26:27 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 10 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 205, message 6 of 6 Thanks again to John Covert for the interesting article on German Cellular Telephones. Note that, at the current exchange rate of approximately 2DM/$US, the monthly base charge is about $60/month, and the usage charge is about $0.92 per minute. This is at least twice the comparable charges in the U.S. Marvin Sirbu Carnegie Mellon University